Southwest Airlines Makes Three Key Modifications for Thanksgiving Journey

Southwest Airlines is making a handful of enhancements to its buyer expertise simply in time for the busy vacation journey season.

On Monday, the Dallas-based service introduced that its staff has strategically and creatively designed its November 2025 schedule to match capability with demand in the course of the week of Thanksgiving, following FAA cuts prompted by the federal government shutdown.

Additionally, Southwest is increasing its participation in TSA PreCheck Touchless ID, making journey extra seamless at airports in Atlanta, New York (LaGuardia), Portland, Seattle, and Salt Lake City. This comes after a profitable pilot program launch in Denver final month.

Meanwhile, Rapid Rewards Members enrolled in TSA PreCheck with legitimate passports can decide in to TSA PreCheck Touchless ID on the Southwest app.

Southwest has additionally managed to show a loss right into a win by delaying the additional legroom retrofits of its Boeing 737-700 plane to January. This transfer maintains six extra seats on every airplane via the vacations.

Customers checking baggage might be blissful to know that Southwest is returning the power to digitally verify baggage earlier than arriving on the airport. Once checked in, customers can verify and pay for as much as three commonplace baggage utilizing cost choices reminiscent of Apple Pay, PayPal and bank cards.

This week’s encouraging information comes after the airline debuted free Wi-Fi and made a number of different key modifications, together with plans to unveil assigned seating in January. 

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