Begin selling assigned seating and extra legroom
Delivered after the deadline
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- Announced
- 11 Mar 2025
- Due
- 30 Sep 2025
- Delivered
- by 22 Oct 2025
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“Assigned seating and extra legroom on track for sale in 3Q2025”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Southwest announced in October 2025 that it had launched the sale of assigned and extra legroom seating for flights beginning January 27, 2026, which occurred after the third quarter 2025 deadline.
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A Southwest Airlines 8-K filed 2025-10-22
“Launched the sale of assigned and extra legroom seating for flights beginning January 27, 2026” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -8.0% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (21 Oct 2025 to 24 Oct 2025). What this measures
Checked 12 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- Deadline drift +119 days
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 11 Mar 2025
Deadline 30 Sep 2025 (“in 3Q2025”)
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Version 2 · stated 23 Apr 2025
Deadline 31 Mar 2026 (“first quarter of next year”)
“for operation beginning in first quarter of next year”
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Version 3 · stated 22 Oct 2025
Deadline 27 Jan 2026 (“January 27, 2026”)
“Launched the sale of assigned and extra legroom seating for flights beginning January 27, 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
- assigned seating and extra legroom
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Regulatory
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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