seat saving
#256
Join Date: Mar 2019
Posts: 5
saving seats
Answer depends on the person's attitude with me. They get the bathroom answer if they are being an a-hole. They get the seat is being saved if they are nice. I fly twice per month on SW. I do sit about mid way down or further back in the plane. That way folks who really need to sit up front that might be trying to catch a connection can get off faster. Wife always gets b or c. I sit in aisle save the middle. Then when she is walking down the aisle and she sees me, iI then move over to the middle. seat.
#258
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Programs: WN Nothing and spending the half million points from too many flights, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,043
It is not just on the plane. In the waiting area yesterday, about 25% of the seats in my gate area were "saved" with various carryons, shopping bags, and other stuff. I ended up three gates away to find an un-saved seat.
#259
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: none
Posts: 1,668
Grow a pair and ask them to move their stuff if it's that important to you. Or sulk away and find some other seat if you prefer. It's YOUR choice.
#260
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Nashville, TN
Programs: WN Nothing and spending the half million points from too many flights, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 8,043
#261
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2018
Location: USA
Programs: AA Exp
Posts: 519
no people who take up three seats in the waiting areas are rude arseholes. It’s not about the person getting shut out of a seat it’s about the whole me me me attitude we see everywhere, with people who lack consideration for others.
#262
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,870
Whether you support animals on a plane or not has no effect on anything other than the amount of angst you self-inflict. Since you don’t make the rules/laws/regulations, this is really a non-issue.
#264
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 43
My wife and I fly Southwest because we have lots of points. Due to my stupidly forgetting to check in at T-24 we have had to sit apart on the plane for 3 hours. It was not a problem. Southwest's policy is not going to change no matter how long this thread is. Just live with it or fly another airline. Where you sit on a plane is no big deal. If you can't sit next to your travel partner it is not the end of the world.