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Just a Smidge

Baggage Betrayal

Wanna get... out of my seat?

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Marc Schmatjen
Apr 02, 2025
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We, as an intrepid nation of travelers, have been betrayed. We’ve been hoodwinked. Lied to. Conned.

Southwest Airlines is doing away with open seating.

That’s not the betrayal, though. That’s really just funny, because for a lot of people flying Southwest over the years, they never had open seating in the first place.

Literally the last Southwest flight I …

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