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Southwest Airlines will start filling planes to capacity after Thanksgiving as the airline posts a $1.2 billion third-quarter loss

Carlos Yudica/Shutterstock.comThe social distancing measure was adopted by the airline early on but Southwest is now joining the majority of airlines in the US choosing not to block seats.Social distancing in the skies is quickly vanishing.

Southwest Airlines announced Thursday it will no longer block seats on its aircraft as of December 1 as more airlines choose to fill their planes for the winter travel season. "Today, aligned with science-based findings from trusted medical and aviation organizations, we will resume selling all available seats for travel beginning December 1, 2020," CEO and Chairman of the Board Gary Kelly said in anFlyers will instead be given the option to change to a less crowded flight, a move also offered by American Airlines and United Airlines in lieu of blocking seats.

The airline was an early adopter of the strategy aimed at easing flyers back into the skies with some form of airborne social distancing, even if not quite six feet, as

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