Stop making your fellow passengers the enemy and take Southwest to task. Seriously.

There’s no reason SW should keep their hands clean with an ambiguous policy. Get flight attendants involved. Pick up the item “saving” a seat and sit down.

Not a fan of checking in for my boarding spot, prefer an assigned seat and SW seems to no longer be the low fare airline that they love to hang their hat on. They are great about talking about low fares, but their pricing isn’t much different than Delta, American and United.