How about assigning seats from the exit row forward? One good thing is that if they do go full assigned seating, then the preboard scam will decrease and the miracle flights will stop. SWA created this inevitibility by thinking people would not take advantage of the system. They made it worse when they added the priority boarding option. People figured out long ago that they could scam the preboard requirement and then make it even worse trying to save more seats, or even rows of seats. It is just a matter of time before one or more people get into a brawl onboard, and it is entirely SWA's fault when that happens.
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