Originally Posted by
sfoeuroflyer
Why has this not been discussed on this site? It seems that people have forgotten that the price of a seat "buys" precisely the space of the seat. Why should some people now be given double or triple that space for the same fare that everyone else paid for only the space of one seat? If a person wants extra space, by all means pay double for two or triple for three. Worse, if some people are to receive three seats for the price of one, then for SW to receive the same total revenue for the cabin, then the airfares for everyone else will have to go up. Sorry, I am not pleased to pay extra for someone else's gluttony. Further what if the plane has been fully booked? Will another passenger or two be kicked off the flight to make room for the fat person? In short this announcement is disgraceful, short sighted, and frankly smacks of woke pandering. Yuk.
Wasn't an announcement, and has been WN policy for at least a decade. A travel "influencer" made a TikTok and brought attention to the policy. Don't know what the policy is if a flight is fully booked who gets IDB'd if the COS didn't prebook multiple seats. I'd like to know the answer to that also. The previous policy that required purchase of multiple seats and refunds if the flight wasn't fully booked was better in my mind. It wasn't costing WN any revenue. If the flight wasn't full, those seats next to a COS were going to be the last ones taken anyway. Everyone here probably has a story of choosing a different seat due to the size of the person. I recall someone here saying they actively tried to get seats next to small females to get extra space.