# I have a trip coming up and Southwest Airlines pilots may go on strike. What do I do?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 11, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-trip-coming-up-and-southwest-airlines-pilots-may-go-on-strike-what-do-i-do/989950 "2023-09-11T20:25:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-trip-coming-up-and-southwest-airlines-pilots-may-go-on-strike-what-do-i-do/989950/21 "2023-09-13T13:43:43Z")

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Ok, you’re taking about “Basic” seats. Those are **not** regular Economy seating. Everything other than checked bags is included in Economy seating and the price shown is what you pay.

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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-trip-coming-up-and-southwest-airlines-pilots-may-go-on-strike-what-do-i-do/989950/22 "2023-09-13T14:03:27Z")

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Right, but I wasn’t talking about regular Economy. The prices you’ll see at Kayak or other consolidators are the lowest fares the airlines offer, and they’ll be the Basic prices, not regular Economy.

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**Author:** ![suranyi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@suranyi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/suranyi)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-trip-coming-up-and-southwest-airlines-pilots-may-go-on-strike-what-do-i-do/989950/23 "2023-09-13T15:40:17Z")

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Many foreign airlines too, nowadays. I just booked some tickets on British Airways and had to pay to select my seats.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2023, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-trip-coming-up-and-southwest-airlines-pilots-may-go-on-strike-what-do-i-do/989950/24 "2023-09-13T15:51:23Z")

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I booked flights through AA, but it was a codeshare with BA. The fare would have included seat assignments on AA, but BA was responsible for the seat assignments and they wouldn’t give me free seats until 24 hours before flight. I cancelled the tickets (within 24 hours, free immediate refund) and rebooked on different flights from AA and got free advanced seat assignments.

Read the fine print.

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