Southwest Airlines Community

We use air tags in our luggage.  We know exactly where they are and if anyone tells us otherwise, we show them the tracking.   I anticipate a new level of debate with the advent of air tags.  If Southwest "claims" that your bags are in Houston, but your own device shows them to be at your home airport sitting in the back, who's information will be regarded as primary?   It is time for Southwest to modernize their luggage policies.  I see too many cases where people are complaining about luggage.  And, in the other post, if Southwest observed that the package was overstuffed and susceptible to damage, the article should have been refused.   Also, anyone trying to bring an item on a plane that is oversized, or the number of articles exceed the count and type, I am proposing that the FAA levy a fine of $1,000 which must be immediately paid in order to fly.  No exceptions.  ... View more

Your best option, and anyone who cares where or with whom they sit, is to book with an airline that lets you reserve your seats in advance.   SWA is great. Convieneint. Low priced.   But they don't let you reserve seats. How important is it that you sit together?  ... View more

Spokane GEG to (hopefully) SMF , on to SNA in July (yep disneyland) and then back same route. After bad experience in SJC I prefer to stay away from there. OAK is 2nd choice as we did Okay there.  But any delay at all means rushing to next gate because southwest tends to have long delays on those fights it seems. We got stranded 4 hours in sjc because it was a noon flight. Our return would be around 3 to 5pm so I assume extremely long delays because I'm not doing a crack of dawn flight with 3 kids after disneyland lol ... View more