I like cattle?
The Dallas Morning News reports that Southwest Airlines will launch a pilot program today (pun intended) to assign seats to passengers instead of herding everyone like cattle. Starting today, some Southwest flights from San Diego will give out assigned seats.
(As a side note, the newspaper also says Southwest gets wedding invitations from passengers who met through open seating. How does one invite an airliner to a wedding? Is the ceremony held in a hangar? Haha.)
While Southwest experiments with assigned seating, Northwest Airlines is doing the exact opposite:
Northwest is testing a new policy in which coach passengers have seat assignments but board in the order they line up at the gate.
To sum up: Southwest is trying to be more like Northwest. And Northwest is trying to be more like Southwest.
3 comments:
Won't somebody please think of Sacramento? They're an innocent victim, caught in the middle of this lame joke.
I prefer Southwest's method simply because it provies decent training if the world ever descends into anarchy. First-time Southwest fliers are horrified by the system. You'd think they were going to have to jump on the outisde of a bus.
Crap, I'm flying SWA into (and out of) San Diego this weekend. I wonder if I like cattle enough to be herded into a specific seat ...
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