http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/21/southwest-to-try-out-brilliant-new-coke-ploy/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/21/southwest-to-try-out-brilliant-new-coke-ploy/#comment-1974 Bill F Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:33:25 +0000 http://www.mattsapundit.com/2006/06/21/southwest-to-try-out-brilliant-new-coke-ploy/#comment-1974 The one thing that always kept me from wanting to fly Southwest was the thought of having to get to the airport 2 hours ahead of time to avoid getting stuck in the middle seat between two gigantosaurs with killer B.O. Since I am not small in the shoulders and I don't do well trying to show up anywhere 2 hours early, getting that aisle seat is pretty critical for me. I thought they had fixed this problem with online checkin since I could easily get my A pass online the night before. I don't really see assigned seating as such a huge deal though. I really doubt that it will take much more time to board the planes than having all the people holding C cards wandering up and down the aisles looking for the mythical middle seat between the two 4'2" 85lb gymnasts heading home from training at Bela Karoly's place. The one thing that always kept me from wanting to fly Southwest was the thought of having to get to the airport 2 hours ahead of time to avoid getting stuck in the middle seat between two gigantosaurs with killer B.O. Since I am not small in the shoulders and I don’t do well trying to show up anywhere 2 hours early, getting that aisle seat is pretty critical for me. I thought they had fixed this problem with online checkin since I could easily get my A pass online the night before. I don’t really see assigned seating as such a huge deal though. I really doubt that it will take much more time to board the planes than having all the people holding C cards wandering up and down the aisles looking for the mythical middle seat between the two 4′2″ 85lb gymnasts heading home from training at Bela Karoly’s place.

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