Southwest Reveals New Seats… Yay?

I agree lucky, the last time I flew on southwest my phone was on 1% and died immediately. Then I had no entertainment for 4 hours. :(

I totally agree with you. I avoid flying Southwest because of this. When I'm on a multiple-leg flight, there are times I'm not able to charge my phone/tablet/computer at the terminal because either there isn't enough time between flights or other people are charging their devices (and several of them at once!). It makes absolutely no sense why they don't have power ports. Games, movies take up a lot of juice and we'll be lucky if there is enough power for the entire flight. It would certainly suck if you ran out of power and you used an e-boarding pass. I don't consider this to be a frill. It's a necessity. People are going paperless, meaning no paper boarding passes. And the seats, absolutely horrible. They are so uncomfortable. My a** hurt so much after the first left of my trip that I was dreading the next leg. Honestly, I fly American Airlines because most of the time I can get flights with ports.

I will add that as much as I love flying Southwest, I due tend to look for Virgin America flights first because they have power outlets available to all passengers between seats. If those flights aren't within my grasp, then I fall back to the no frills, no power outlets Southwest. This is mos def a bad upgrade decision on their part by not including the power outlet seats. That's a lot of future money they are missing out on. I'd pay an extra 30 to 50 bucks per flight to get that option. I kind of consider that a no frills option in today's world.

I don't travel often, usually 2 round trips a year. Usually Sea-tac to Austin international. That a 4-5 hour flight. I'm a gamer, so I usually have my laptop on, playing some game or another. Normally I fly Alaska, but today I'm flying Southwest. I just saw this and a few other articles saying how they don't have in seat power, and I have to say, I'm very disappointed. I already know how this whole flight is going to go, just off of that one little 1" by 1" detail not being there. I'm going to play on my laptop for 1, maybe 2 hours before it dies, then I'm going to get on my phone, and maybe get another hour. Then I'm going to be bored, and daze in my seat, and get mildly sick from the heat and motion. Fun times. Honestly, I'm probably going to stick to Alaska from now on. $25 baggage fee, or no power outlet? Let me pull out my wallet real quick.

Southwest made a big mistake not opting for power ports. I was at the expo (and still am here in Hamburg visiting family), and heard the news: no power ports and no embedded IFE. At first I was upset about both things, but then I realized that SWA already has a good non-embedded IFE on all wifi enabled planes (fleet wide wifi in 2016). The power ports though, that disappoints me hugely. The most we can do is wait and see if they catch on and install them!