IP, in a way the offers based on ticket price make sense to the passengers: maybe full fare passengers are more entitled to fly, and thusly, would receive greater compensation than someone on a deeply discounted ticket. OTOH, I would think that a seat is a seat regardless of fare paid. gutt's comments make me feel a little uneasy: in the great Southwest land of passenger equity, it seems like there's some incentive for an agent to save company $$ by first involuntarily bumping the RR ticket holders, then the 21 day advance folks, then the 14 day advance, etc. Not a very equitable system to me.

Flight was booked to 161 out of-- is it 138?? When the BWI agent wouldn't budge on the offer, and at my request verified the offer/RR policy with a supervisor by phone, I just boarded and didn't watch the show. After all, you know I didn't have a seat assignment.