Begin retrofitting aircraft with extra legroom seating configurations
Delivered after the deadline (302 days after the deadline)
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- Announced
- 24 Oct 2024
- Due
- 31 Mar 2025
- Delivered
- 27 Jan 2026
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Starting in 1Q 2025, begin retrofitting 50-100 aircraft per month with ELR seating configurations”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Southwest committed to begin retrofitting aircraft in 1Q 2025, but later filings confirm the operational launch of extra legroom seating did not occur until January 27, 2026.
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A Southwest Airlines 10-Q filed 2025-10-23
“shifting extra legroom seating retrofits of Boeing 737-700 ("-700") aircraft to January 2026” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Southwest Airlines 10-Q filed 2026-04-23
“The Company began operation of assigned and extra legroom seating flights on January 27, 2026” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -7.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (22 Oct 2025 to 27 Oct 2025). 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
- Product other
- Indicative materiality
- Low rules
- Action
- Begin
- Deliverable
- ELR seating configurations
- Target
- 50 aircraft
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Conditional
- Yes: Seeking FAA approval of supplemental type certificate
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Partner
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- 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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