[losalamosal]

Your assigned seat won’t be worth squat when a parent with two screaming, seat kicking, kids sit behind you. The flexibility of Southwest’s seating model allowed the 20% of us who favor it to “game” the system on their perpetually 100% loaded flights (don’t sit by kids, select two open seats with slender person in third seat, etc.). I’ve been dreading this. To me, they just gave up their competitive advantage.