{"id":354560,"date":"2026-01-24T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-best-us-carrier-ahead-controversial-assigned-seating-rollout\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T10:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:47:20","slug":"southwest-airlines-named-best-us-carrier-ahead-of-controversial-assigned-seating-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=354560","title":{"rendered":"Southwest Airlines Named Best US Carrier Ahead Of Controversial Assigned Seating Rollout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-worlds-largest-lcc\/\" >world&#8217;s largest low-cost carrier<\/a>, <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> has been named the best in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span> according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/travel\/the-best-and-worst-airlines-of-2025-e69b41c7?gaa_at=eafs&#038;gaa_n=AWEtsqfKcaQ7fbfgqkYN0_KNuuc5y4M8-OmYPmGYs61V92E9dH4XIDhZLRtVHvmYhoY%3D&#038;gaa_ts=69740bfc&#038;gaa_sig=WR5OXbXd8x92LX9m841fWNr_fmmZbUCZl5dUkFj3RtI5JOWcwLv71eLhtbPgs84s2t-HSSHgnvG17fNi8Gssqw%3D%3D\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >Wall Street Journal<\/a>. The airline, which operates more <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525557\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span> aircraft than any other airline, has been crowned the best airline, despite the forthcoming introduction of assigned seating. This comes at a time when the airline is undergoing several changes, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/southwest-airlines-ditches-free-checked-bags\/\" >abolition of the &#8216;bags fly free&#8217; policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Controversial policy rollout can&#8217;t stop this carrier from claiming the crown.<\/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":[396,476,1041,8274,645,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-rankings","category-southwest-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354560","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=354560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354561,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354560\/revisions\/354561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}