Just wondering if anyone has an idea why our dear analyst Mr. Boyd has such a burr under his saddle regarding SWA's open seating policy? Has he never gone to a movie theater? If it's crowded and you need two seats together, just ask the person sitting there if they wouldn't mind making room. I've moved to a middle seat numerous times so a parent and child, two newly-weds, or even two not-so-newly-weds could sit together. Way-too-many other folks to even count have done the same. It's no big deal. It even makes the rest of the passengers feel better to see that someone still believes in being courteous instead of being a self-centered idiot.

I've never met him so I may be way off base. But ... from reading the tone of most of his writing I think Mr. Boyd's ego is so inflated that he believes he is owed better than being grouped with "normal" people.