• Southwest plans to offer pricier seats with extra legroom and end open seating on its planes.
  • The shifts are the most major in the airline’s more than five decades of flying.
  • Southwest expects to start selling seats with the new cabin option next year.
  • invertedspear@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Southwest has been shown to have the shortest turnaround time of all the airlines due to open seating. IIRC when other airlines were failing and merging, Southwest stayed independent and even profitable. This is just another example of short term gain being prioritized over long term strategy.