Southwest Airlines Community

I’d agree - and if you’ve paid for the early bird only to have your seat choices taken away by seat savers, perhaps call the airline to have your money refunded. It doesn’t solve the issue but maybe it will help if people start asking for their money back. No idea if they’ll honor a refund because of this, but it sure is worth asking the question  ... View more

On a flight just last week, 2 different families (who both had multiple folks pre-board) saved seats using canes across multiple rows in the front of the plane. When other passengers voiced their displeasure with this, the people who saved the seats got upset, and the flight attendants got involved. Ultimately the flight attendant stated that Southwest does NOT have a policy AGAINST saving seats…. Which was news to me. It seems inappropriate to save more than a single seat, unless perhaps you have small children with you, or a person who needs assistance throughout the flight. I don’t see how it is reasonable to save 5 rows of seats. I was flying by myself so I didn’t really care either way for this flight, but had I been flying with my kids and needed a seat together, I might have taken issue with this as well.  ... View more