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Southwest Airlines sets a date, plan for the end of open seating

Travel NewsJuly 21, 202539Views

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 airplane departs from Harry Reid International Airport as another airplane taxis in Las Vegas, Nevada, on March 15, 2025. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images Southwest Airlines passengers will fly in assigned seats for the first time on Jan. 27, the carrier told CNBC.…

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Are Fees for Seating Assignments in Restaurants Coming to Las Vegas?

MGM Resorts, which operates a host of properties in Las Vegas, is reportedly considering the introduction of "tiered seating" fees at restaurants located at the company's hotels. This would mean diners would have to pay extra to sit at the restaurants' best tables—like the ones next to windows perhaps. Word that MGM is contemplating such…

January 14, 2025101Views

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Southwest Airlines to End Open Seating, So Why Fly It At All? There’s Still One Reason

Social media is so infected with liars and bad actors that we can't trust it even to tell us the sky is blue anymore. But the minute Southwest Airlines announced that, after some 50 years, the carrier will do away with its open seating system, the online reaction seemed to repeat a certain point that…

January 4, 202577Views

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How We Helped to End Family Seating Fees, the Worst Airline Junk Fee Ever

For more than ten years, airlines have charged families with young kids to sit together. It’s finally going to stop. Here's how we made change happen. About ten years ago, airline greed reached a new low when every carrier in the nation refused to waive seating fees…

January 4, 202581Views

Southwest weighs seating changes to drive up revenue

A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-700 aircraft lands at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Virginia, on May 7, 2023. Nicolas Economou | Nurphoto | Getty Images Southwest Airlines is weighing changes to its cabin that could involve abandoning its single-class, open-seating system to drive up revenue, CEO Bob Jordan told CNBC…

April 25, 2024154Views