Southwest Primer

I keep forgetting that everyone in the world doesn’t fly on Southwest three times a month. Since I tend to blog a lot about crazy people who travel [and they're ALL crazy], I thought I might need to offer a refresher on Southwest travel. First, there are no assigned seats and you board by a letter/number sequence – A1 through 60, B1 through 60 and then the general “you’re screwed” set that is the “C” boarding group [or as half the Southwest waitresses flight attendants like to say: “C” stands for “C a middle seat – take it, that’s yours”].

This letter-imposed hierarchy is in effect unless you 1) pay extra money to be a ”Business Select” [read: sucker] passenger (and then you are assigned A1 through A15) or 2) single-handedly supported Southwest’s Q2 earnings report and then you are given a permanent assignment in the high “A’s” [I’d like to introduce myself – I’m Ms. A16 and you’re in my way]. The guy walking down the aisle looking for seat C14? Yeah….he’s never flown Southwest before.

Shew. I think I am going to put that in one of the “widgets” of my blog – a permanent footnote that will come in as a handy reference to the 40% of my blog posts that seem to relate to Southwest. I had to do this reminder because the moral of tomorrow’s blog is “careful who you are mean to in the boarding line of your Southwest flight”.