Yesterday (October 10), we unveiled our gate design at Dallas Love Field. To read about the details, click here. For our interactive page at southwest.com that shows all of the new gate areas' features click here. Below are some photos showing the new family areas, the seats with power units, the charging stations, and the new boarding columns.
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It all looks great! Hopefully there are enough seats for everyone since staking out line positions will no longer be necessary.
Hurry up and get PHX done already! :D
Looks nice. Hopefully you wont need to do this @ dtw until the new terminal is open in 2008.
Office hours are posted elsewhere on the internet.
Ding! boy
joe
I remember this!
I'm so disappointed you didn't take my suggestion to add winglets to the table!
Ah well, I think I recognize a couple other suggestions incorporated.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
This looks very nice! I wish they'd do something like this in TUL! :)
I can't wait until this is implemented system-wide. I'm curious to see how the setup is going to work in our little corner of the system!
[...] As part of the new boarding experience, Southwest has unveiled a redesigned gate area. Part of the redesign will be the installation of stainless steel columns and television monitors to support the new boarding process. Other new elements include a family area containing small-sized tables and chairs, “kid friendly” programming displayed on a flat screen television, and low to the ground power stations for charging electric devices; and a business/leisure section with padded seats, tables with power outlets, power stations with stools, and flat screen televisions with news programming. The makeover will be implemented at all airports by the first half of 2008. For some pictures and other media of the gate remodel…check out the report on the Nuts about Southwest blog. [...]
I like the new gate area seating, I just hope that the people who don't need the power outlets will choose the other seats. Also, it doesn't look like there's room there for 137 customers....
Hi Brian,
(Great name, by the way!), I had a similar question, so I got the answers. The new gate areas will only reduce seating options by three or four seats. However, in San Antronio where we have gone to the new enhanced boarding system with groups of five (it rolls out in Dallas on Monday), more people are spending time in the airport concessions than in the gate areas because they are freed from the need to stake out a place in line.
Brian
Is there a schedule available for when each airport is to be done? Any chance that OAK will be done in time for my OAK-HOU flight on 2 Nov and HOU on 4 Nov for my return?
Now, if only Southwest can do something about the walkway to the new gates at OAK. Some idiot thought it was cute to cover up the windows with designs and thus blocked the view of the ramp.
Looks great! Good design ideas SWA! Thanks for separating the lap-top and Blackberry crowd from the rug rats. These will be welcome changes when they come to my home base in ABQ.
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