Originally posted by: OMB13
Robbie.....
From my experience the first week of the new seating rules, there aren't near that many seats available overall. Flyers with a low tier Swest credit card can pick their seat 48 hours in advance (and there are lots of those folks) and flyers with an upper end CC can pick their seat at any point before departure. That leaves all the others that will have their seat chosen for them by SW about an hour before departure (I believe it's an hour). And, the closer to departure time, the folks in the "all the others" category feel the pressure to buy a seat that's still available.
Definitely confusing.
The CEO is an idiot IMO for screwing up what set SWest apart from other airlines. But, I better get off my soapbox on that subject.
ND
Thanks for taking the time to 'splain that for me ND. I have not flown SW since they decided to go with the new rules. Thinking about what I thought were vacant seats actually going to have some behinds in them makes the ticket price that they are asking now, a week out, make sense. If the plane were going to be that empty, the price would have fallen...I think.
Thanks again!
Rob