I posted on this page a little less than a year ago about paying more just to have an assigned seat on Southwest. My family of five flew Southwest from BWI to MDW and my wife insisted we arrive early enough to be 5 of the first 30 in line. Her fear was we could be split up if we arrived any later. WELCOME ASSIGN SEATING AT SOUTHWEST.
BTW I know I'll be ragged on if I don't mention this but our youngest was 6 and we asked the counter agent if we could be preboarded. She response was he wasn't young enough for a family preboard. We were 5 of the first 30 and we were able to seat ourselves all together. The flight was fine, but would still enjoy to assurance of assigned seating.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041029/southwest_seating_2.html
BTW I know I'll be ragged on if I don't mention this but our youngest was 6 and we asked the counter agent if we could be preboarded. She response was he wasn't young enough for a family preboard. We were 5 of the first 30 and we were able to seat ourselves all together. The flight was fine, but would still enjoy to assurance of assigned seating.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/041029/southwest_seating_2.html