Gary, thank you for taking time to communicate directly with us. Please, please, please do NOT change your open seating rules.
This is one of the very things that makes Southwest special -- we can sit with (or away from) whomever we want.
I am a business traveler. I need to work on the plane. Putting me next to a crying baby would be a disaster.
I do not care if I sit in 1c, 3e, 19f, or 23b. I just need quiet. I choose to fly SWA because I can choose my neighbor.
Please do not take away our freedom to choose.
After all, we business travelers cannot have freedom to fly without the freedom to choose where we sit.
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