@Messmertc wrote: My wife too is my companion pass and I never save the seat for her. 99% of the time it is still vacant when she boards and if we need to be apart for 4 hours, so be it. This “saving of stats” example was the remainder of the entire row by spreading stuff all over those seats to sent a message. The flight attendant is an employee of SW. it’s like people bringing on three bags. It’s either a rule or a suggestion. An unenforced policy is just a suggestion You are exactly right - and nowhere on the site will you find a reference to seat saving, it is a suggestion and not a policy. Personally I have no problem saving a middle seat for my wife. It's more complicated now that our daughter is no longer a lap child, so we usually take family boarding and whatever we can get at that time but sometimes I'm pressured to board with my A-number and hold spots for the ladies.
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