Originally Posted by BeatNavy

If you select southwest as the airline you are searching for instead of all airlines, you seem to get accurate smiley/frowny faces. Another trick I’ve found is to go to book the ticket on the SWA app, and try various numbers (1-8) of tickets to purchase. It won’t let you buy more than are available (shows unavailable), so you can gauge open seats that way. Doesn’t do much good for knowing how many standbys there are, though.