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The Sports Junkies

Southwest Loses Their Identity By Taking This Away

The Sports Junkies

Audacy

Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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From 07/25 Hour 3:

The Sports Junkies react to Southwest changing their open seating policy.

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0:00.0

We've just been woefully irresponsible on an open line Thursday.

0:03.8

We're just not taking any calls.

0:05.3

I don't know what we're doing with our eyes.

0:06.5

Well, I tried to say at the top of the show we should set a record for most calls.

0:09.2

Well, I think it took a few on PJ's.

0:11.6

That's true. We took a few on PJs. That's true. We took a few on PJ. We could always take more. And we had Ron, the guy's been married three times, and now he just slings it wherever he wants.

0:19.6

80636, 1067, the MGM National Harbor listener lines if you would like to contact us on an open line Thursday right it is your right and I think you might actually want to chime in on this so this is my bombshell

0:32.3

Okay. I was stunned by this and I'm getting this courtesy

0:36.2

John Arand he's the reason why I saw this story. Cakes

0:41.9

Southwest is getting rid of their open seating.

0:45.0

Oh, really?

0:47.0

That's what they're known for.

0:49.0

That is a bomb.

0:50.0

I think that qualifies as a bomb.

0:52.0

That's a bombshell. Southwest plans to offer... I think that qualifies as a bomb show. That is.

0:53.0

Southwest plans to offer pricier seats with extra leg room and end open seating on its planes.

1:02.0

The shifts are the most major in southwest more than five decades of flying.

1:07.0

They're expected to start selling the seats with a new cabin option next year. I'll say this. I welcome it. Not a big Southwest guy. I've flown

1:17.2

Southwest, you know, like everybody else, but I don't like the pressure of having to be like the first one to log in to make sure I'm in the A or the B or

1:26.8

paying the extra 20 bucks to be in the A so I can get the you know make sure I

1:31.2

can have room for my freaking carry-on stuff I hate

1:34.5

Southwest it's laborious some I think it's a love hate relationship some people

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