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As expected, Southwest keeps open seating

Just as we anticipated yesterday, Southwest is not changing its open-seating policy, but is tweaking the process to make boarding more orderly. Read the news release the airline posted on its Website here.

Thursday update: MarketWatch did a complete story on Southwest's decision. Find it with this link.

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