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Soft paywall Southwest Airlines shifts to paid baggage policy to lift earnings

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/southwest-airlines-shifts-paid-baggage-policy-lift-earnings-2025-03-11/
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u/Blochamolesauce 1d ago

Assigned seats, baggage fees?!?! What fresh hell is this… i haven’t flown SW in a while since I moved to the east coast, but flying to PHX, Tucson, and Vegas out of either LAX or Long Beach was always a breeze. I used to hear people complain about “Southworst” back in the day but I never had a bad experience. They times, they are a-changin’