Originally Posted by
freyguy50
Pardon my ignorance, but I haven't flown Southwest in almost 10 years since the nearest airport that has WN is over 150 miles away. Do they have First Class now?
No, they merged with AirTran which did have First Class, but as they integrated AirTran they got rid of the First Class on it. That integration is now complete (as of a couple months ago), and there are no longer any AirTran flights.
That was thus a
joke about the impossibility of finding First Class awards on Southwest, because there is no First Class, and thus there are no First Class awards.
Southwest still has open seating. So the one "perk" at Southwest is earlier boarding, so you get a slightly better choice of the seats in the all-coach cabin.