Originally Posted by
pinniped
Has Southwest brought back the discussion of implementing F, E+, or something similar? I wasn't aware this was on the table. With flights close to 100% full, it might not be a high priority to do this. I know it gets talked about here every few years...it seems like Southwest studies it and decides not to do it.
Well, every time they've studied it before they probably used the obsolete reservation system as a factor in deciding not to do it.
But now that they've got a new reservation system, some decisions they decided one way may get decided in a different way the next time they look at them, because a "crippled" reservation system won't be an excuse any more not to do it.
Having said that, don't hold your breath. They have to be confident that the new reservation system works well first, and then they have to first use it to tailor schedules more than they could in the past and stuff like that (which doesn't involve changing the interior of planes). Decisions that would change the interior of planes are presumably much further off from being revisited, simply because there are so many other changes the new reservation system makes possible that don't change the interior of planes, and they'll presumably focus on those first.