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Southwest Airlines Co.

Limit seats sold on each flight

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced
23 Jul 2020
Due
31 Oct 2020
Delivered
October 2020
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What the company said

“we are limiting seats sold on each flight through at least October 2020”

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Southwest Airlines maintained its policy of limiting seats sold on each flight through at least October 2020, with filings confirming the practice continued through November 30, 2020.

  • A
    Southwest Airlines 10-K filed 2021-02-08 Regulatory filing · published 8 Feb 2021 · retrieved 12 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC
    “limiting the number of seats available for sale on each flight through November 30, 2020, to allow for the middle seat to remain open” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved +1.8% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (5 Feb 2021 to 10 Feb 2021). What this measures

Checked 12 Oct 2026.

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type
Capacity change
Indicative materiality
Medium rules
Action
Limit
Deliverable
seat capacity limitation
In the company’s control
High
Specificity
High

How this entry was checked

  1. Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
  2. First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
  3. Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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