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@HendersonVic wrote: Thanks for the reply and where to send the idea to Southwest. It may take some doing by the airport to honor the request, possibly re-route the electrical outlets and place 60 seats, back-to-back, so passengers can sit and wait in a comfortable manner. Fifteen minutes (15) before boarding begins, they ask all passengers to start taking their "assigned seats" to help move the boarding process faster. Sending passengers fifteen at a time helps unblock congestion getting on the plane and in the aisle- as passengers place their carry-ons in the overhead compartment. It may get some getting used to and there will be some growing pains for sure, just like any other change. At O’Hare for instance the gates are all shared use by the airlines so the seating thing would not work since Southwest may change which gates they use.   There may be a logistical issue as well with sixty seats per gate taken up for this purpose, some locations are so tight there is barely room for sixty seats in total.     ... View more