02-18-2019
10:36 PM
@Lazyboy311 wrote: I’m literally shaking mad about this right now, I’ll spare you the details but THREE of my wife and I’s requests for seats were denied by the articles of clothing deemed more human than I to which the attendant simply stated that SWA “has no policy against it” and asked me to move on. I want to turn this around and explain how this hurts SWA. I have a party of 4 traveling together and paid early bird for each, so say $60 total. I would have been better off booking one business select ticket at a cost of, say $40, and saved the other seats. This results in a 33% reduction in revenue from my purchase. As I said before, this happened three times to me within 5 minutes, I can only imagine what the lost revenue was on this flight alone. Additionally, I’m going to try to be as polite as possible on this one, but the “savers” appear to not be your best customers. I, a SW Premier Card holder who booked my tickets honestly and fairly, lost out on true “open seating” due to rules that are ambiguous at best. Not only does it negatively affect customers such as myself, it results in less overall upgrades because people are aware that they only need one “good” ticket, regardless of the size of their traveling party. This policy (or lack thereof) results in frequent abuse of the system by “savers”, undermines loyal and honest customers like myself and many others out there, and results in less accessorial revenue to the company. Probably should have picked up the clothing and asking if they belonged to anyone then handed it to them and sat down.
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12-10-2018
04:37 PM
Admin here. I have responded and offered @cz7p4q information about how to contact Southwest Airlines directly so we can give the appropriate attention to any Customer Service issues that need to be addressed. The Southwest Community welcomes different viewpoints, but we ask that you please review the Community Guidelines before engaging in conversation.
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Group Travel is a bit of an odd bird. You essentially accept some significant limitations and issues (the insane telephone hold times being one in addition to the unavailability of EBCI) in trade for a possible small discount and most importantly passenger name flexibility/transferability. There are pluses and minuses, what may make it work for some may be a deal-breaker for others. The response you received from the "CEO" doesn't surprise me. I find that suggestion (writing to the president of a company) to be naively outdated, and generally a waste of time these days. Especially at a large company like Southwest. YMMV.
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