Southwest plans an annoucement tomorrow about its boarding and seating policies. Are assigned seats coming ? Our best guess is no. Seems like too big a leap, although we've been wrong a time or two before. Look for the airline to be adopting a more orderly process for boarding each flight, based on a "position" number based on when you checked in. This is the experiment we told you about on Aug. 8, with a link to a story in the San Antonio Express-News . Bloomberg News also reports today that Southwest may drop its policy of allowing passengers traveling with small children to board first, so perhaps that's what the announcement tomorrow is all about. Check here for details when we get them.
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Southwest's boarding procedures: Change coming
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