Southwest Airlines will end open seating in early 2026. It will sell tickets for the first flights with assigned seating and premium seats in the second half of 2025. Southwest assigned seating ...

Southwest Airlines introduces premium seating with extra legroom to boost revenue. Regular seats on about 450 planes will lose an inch of legroom, shrinking to 31 inches. Southwest's new seating ...

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Airlines are doubling down on high-margin premium cabins and even expanding them on new planes. They're counting on the cabins to fill the financial hole caused by a glut of cheap economy seats.

They don’t like to then pay for choosing seats. By packing all of these into a premium offering … you can convince even budget-conscious customers to pay,” Gad Allon, a professor at Wharton ...

The airline will offer assigned and premium seats and a revamped boarding model, it announced on Thursday. Adopting a system of “assigned and premium seating is part of an ongoing and ...

On the outward journey we had the two seats on the starboard side at the front of the premium eco cabin, behind the bulkhead. Heaps of legroom, a decent seat and a newish Airbus A350, my ...

Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways has unveiled new seats in premium economy and economy that will fly on international routes—and fliers at the back of the plane are getting more space. Both of the ...