Southwest- seating issue

[Mother2two]

Good evening.
I am about to book our flights, but I am concerned. We are four adults, but my daughter has never flown. I want to guarantee she sits with either her brother or I. I see the SW won’t let you choose your seats until you get on the flight. How do families handle this? I would just pay more and fly with another airline, but I worry about the weather in December and getting stuck somewhere. SW is a direct flight.

Any suggestions or ideas??
Thanks!
Christina

 

[scrappinginontario]

Pay for Early Bird Check-in (EBCI) when you book your flights. You will be assigned an earlier boarding group and will be able to find 2 seats together.

If it helps, we’ve flown SW over 100 flights and can count on one hand the number of times we’ve sat separately and we’ve rarely purchased EBCI.

 

[gottalovepluto]

EBCI will guarantee it. And you won’t be stressed as all get out about checking in at 24 hours on the dot to get better placement for boarding.