Southwest Airlines ends its famous open-seating policy and implements new rules requiring plus-size passengers to purchase ...

While assigned seating grabbed headlines, Southwest Airlines also tightened its plus-size policy. Refunds are now restricted ...

For decades, flying Southwest meant embracing a little chaos. You boarded when your group was called, scanned the cabin like ...

The executive director for the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance previously called the move 'devastating' ...

Starting Tuesday, Southwest Airlines is enacting its controversial new policy that will raise ticket prices for plus-size ...

A change in Southwest Airlines' seating policy has many advocates for the plus-size community saying the shift will create financial burdens and other barriers for this segment of the traveling public ...

Southwest Airlines has begun assigned seating for passengers, replacing its long-standing open-seating policy and introducing group-based boarding.

Southwest has officially switched to assigned seating, ending open seating as the airline continues to remake its once-distinctive business model.

The carrier has claimed that its customers prefer the new policy, despite some pushback.

Southwest Airlines will soon require travelers who can’t fit within the armrests of their seat to pay for an extra one in advance, part of a string of recent changes the carrier is making. The new ...

For a large person, each flight on Southwest was a game of roulette under the airline's longtime unassigned seating policy.

Southwest Airlines will soon require travelers who don’t fit within a single seat’s armrests to pay for an extra seat in advance, part of a series of recent changes by the carrier. The rule goes into ...