{"id":231526,"date":"2025-06-08T05:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-15-planes-extra-legroom\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T05:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T19:00:16","slug":"not-on-sale-yet-southwest-airlines-says-15-of-its-planes-now-have-extra-legroom-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=231526","title":{"rendered":"Not On Sale Yet: Southwest Airlines Says 15% Of Its Planes Now Have Extra Legroom Seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some very big changes currently taking place at <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"44355\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/southwest-airlines\/\"  >Southwest Airlines<\/a><\/span>, a carrier that has been in the national spotlight following a high-profile standoff with activist investment management firm Elliott Management. The carrier has shifted away from its traditional business model in a few key ways, but the largest and most impactful of these changes has likely been the carrier&#8217;s decision to move away from its traditional open seating policy. By assigning seats, the airline can offer premium seats to passengers for which it can charge for extra legroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These seats will give passengers additional room to stretch out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1041,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231527,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231526\/revisions\/231527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}