Southwest Airlines' New Seat Design Has Customers Sounding Off - Daily Patriot Report

My wife and I flew to Florida last year on a brand new (first flight) 737 featuring the new seating. Do you remember seeing diagrams of slave ships? How they stacked the human cargo to fill every available cubic inch? Well, that is the best description I can think of to help you understand Southwest Airlines' new seating. Forget the slimline design and all the other features they mention. We were loaded like that human cargo and dared not move until we stopped at the terminal at our destination. Okay, I'm a large guy (and I don't mean height.) But my wife is a petit 4'10" weighing in at a very reasonable... let's say a couple pounds over 110. (Let's not quibble over the daily variations measured in fractions of a pound.) She struggled into the window seat and feared that the person in front of her might recline. Had they, her rank would've had to fall like dominoes.