Southwest Airlines has today outlined a $2 billion investment in the passenger experience, which I'm sure many will appreciate. Southwest introducing power at every seat Southwest Airlines has announced plans to install USB power outlets at every seat on select aircraft. Specifically, Boeing 737 MAX jets will have both USB-A and USB-C outlets. Sadly there…
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For an airline that says they want to capture the business market this is so long overdue.
Southwest Airlines are the worst! Trip delays for no reason. No service on board with no turbulence. Horrible! Idk who’s voting to give them awards.
I hope they will also add complementary messaging as several other airlines now offer
USB-C, interesting.
It is capable of delivering significant power, enough to charge modern laptops. But I really do not think they will enable it. Even regular USB-A ports on most planes are producing just 1A. Probably for fire safety..
The wattage sign near USB-C port seems to be 60W - Then this is amazing and is almost as good as AC these days, unless you are looking to recharge drones, or ancient computer like Lucky's eye sore MacBook Air.
I’d be more excited about this if this was getting retrofitted to the entire fleet. Yes, there will be 250 aircraft with power by the end of next year. But there are still over 450 737-700s and over 200 737-800s that will still not have power. It’s especially disappointing with not retrofitting the -800s as they’re all relatively young (10 years or younger) so they’ll spend quite a bit more time at Southwest.
Southwest is going to piss off a lot of customers by the misleading webpage they put up.
Nothing about 'select fleet." It makes people feel like all Southwest flights will have USB ports and faster wi-fi when it's not true.
https://www.southwest.com/experience/#enhanced-experience
@skyward I don't believe there malicious intent with the select fleet statement. There are always planes that are destined for removal from the fleet, or restricted by lessor terms. When Southwest was rolling out wifi originally in the late 2000's they were very good about notifications to fliers as to what they would be encountering on their travels as the rollout started and was limited to planes they could update.
What Southwest does to upset me as a consumer is not make prices available on Google Flights for comparison, and when I do bother to price check them, come in higher. I used to be a Southwest loyalist but haven't been A-List or Companion Pass in 10 years.