Southwest Airlines has made major changes to its policies in recent months. The most notable include adding checked bag fees and eliminating its open seating policy, for which the airline was ...

And it follows another downgrade, the elimination of Southwest’s historic “open seating” policy last year. Why is this happening? The answer is both disturbing and predictable: Wall Street ...

Southwest announced it will move to assigned seating. The airline's open seating policy has long been a hallmark of the Dallas airline. But Southwest officials said their consumer research found ...

Months after ditching its open seating policy ... cabin to the cargo hold once there is no longer any room available in the overhead bins. Southwest didn't immediately reveal how much the checked ...