Originally Posted by
trooper
Didn't Southwest have (still have??) a policy where a POS was required to buy a second seat at check in (same price as whatever they had already paid so no rip off "walk up" fares)...
Refunded if the flight wasn't full was what I heard... (As there would logically then be spare seats)
Sounds good to me....
Southwest has exactly this policy, and I think that Continental does too.
Here is a current thread on the topic. See my post #24 on page two for about a dozen more.