A business trip to Las Vegas this week on Southwest Airlines gave me one more chance to experience the cattle call open-seating approach just hours before the new assigned seating scheme went into effect. I can’t say that I’ll miss it…
As I have for the last 20+ years when I’ve flown Southwest, I dutifully checked in right at the 24-hour check-in window in order to get an “A” boarding group (I could not justify paying extra for A 1-15 priority boarding). I landed with A45…good enough.
I showed up at the boarding gate just as boarding was commencing and had to try to approximate where to insert myself. (Southwest sections off each boarding group with signs designating groups of 10 passengers; for example, A 1-10, 11-20, 21-30, etc). I got in line and noticed I was just after A46 but A43 and 44 were behind me…great.
A great solo travel tip spotted this week on Live and Let's Fly.
