Personally I would rather board last with kids.
Booking seats at the rear of the craft gets you on first in general by-section boarding, and thus more chance to find a spot to stow your carry on. Often those are the seats that book last. I can see people who want to catch connecting flights at the destination wanting to get out of the plane ASAP and sitting as far forward as possible, though.
Children should be stretch-wrapped in the lobby before they are taken on board and stowed in the overhead compartments.
Let’s face facts, the early boarding for families did not get them seated any faster.
If you were in the group following such families, you were still waiting for them to get organized in the aisle.
Too many priveleged classes around.
The white guys who work for a living still board last, though.
Not that it matters.
Too many privileged classes around.
The white guys who work for a living still board last, though.
Not that it matters.
Great old commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bTO2iJJjbU
I like the way Southwest does it, after the A boarding group, just before the B group. Still plenty of room for families to sit together.
Your comments are all making me really glad my dad preferred ten hour drives in the station wagon...
Doesn’t make sense to me from the Airline perspective of efficiency or the Parents either.
I’d want anyone slow to board first especially if they have their tribe in tow.
Connecting once thru Raliegh going back to Orlando, FL we were in the gate area ready to board when they announced the pre-boarding of “Families with children and elderly people’.
I looked at the guy next to me and said, “We’re going to Florida. Families with children and elderly is all that is on the flight!”
Frequent Flyer Cranks: Shut. Up.
You’re not entitled to More and Better because you fly more... UNLESS YOU PAY MORE.
Parents with kids are broke and don’t fly that much... of course they’re going to buy coach tickets and monopolize all the overhead bins. You just don’t belong in this section if you fly all the time.
If you drive hundreds of miles a week for business, I guarantee it’s not in a two cylinder beater with holes in the floor that breaks down every hundred miles. You couldn’t get business done that way. You’d be a fool if you didn’t buy a big car with lots of leg room and creature comforts.
PAY MORE WHEN YOU DRIVE MORE to have a better quality of life.
The same is true with airline travel. Coach is all about the cheapest fare possible. People who rarely fly can take it for three hours. But you need to suck it up, Mr. I-Fly-All-the-Time, and upgrade to Business Class, if you want no kids and plenty of overhead space and leg room and no “amateur” travelers who don’t move fast enough in the aisle to suit you.
Are you also incensed when you open your McDonald’s bag and discover there’s no foie gras or white wine?
PAY MORE WHEN YOU FLY MORE to have a better quality of life.