Plus-size travelers must buy extra seats on Southwest flights with assigned seating, with refunds only available if flights ...

SOUTHWEST ADDS ‘POWERFUL’ COCKPIT ALERT SYSTEM Southwest Airlines to end free bags policy Southwest Airlines will end its decades-old policy allowing "bags to fly free" as their marketing put it.

In March, a Southwest flight in Florida tried to take off from a taxiway instead of a runway. A month before that, another Southwest jet narrowly avoided a collision at Chicago Midway.