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[quote=Anonymous]"...this isn't Southwest being a jerk. There is no other way to accommodate passengers who need two seats when there is assigned seating."

Wrong. Southwest is not just being jerks - it is being greedy and unrealistic. And they are going to create havoc at airports when they try to enforce this.

They are going to have their gate agents become de facto gestapo and be giving passengers the stink eye if they don't look like they will fit within the armrests of a single seat. What are they going to do - pull them out of the boarding line and measure them?

Or will they wait until they are inside and sitting down? What if someone's thigh is an inch over the seat crack? Are they going to demand they deplane and buy two seats on a later flight? What is the criteria here?

What about the person who has to sit next to a small child on a parent's lap, and is being kicked? Should they be made to deplane and take a later flight?

While having to sit with someone's body close to you may not be pleasant, it isn't anywhere near the concern that a kicking kid is.

FWIW the majority of American women will NOT fit within the 17.5 inches allotted for the seat on Southwest. They will "spread" underneath the armrest, which is technically exceeding their space and they could get the boot.

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