Finally! I don’t know how many times I’ve been boarding the plane and have wondered why they a) Don’t use both doors at the same time too load the passengers on, and b) why don’t they board passengers with window seats and no carry on luggage first? Looks as if the airline people have realized that the extra time it takes for people to crawl over the legs of the other passengers that cram themselves into their seats first is costing them money. Remember, the less time a plane sits on the ground the more money it makes them.
[via Boing Boing]
You wouldn’t believed how many times I stewed while trying to travel carrying a book and a laptop, while 3/4 of the other passengers were stowing every last possession above their heads…
Posted this rant excerpt from an experience at LAX :
“I made it to the boarding gate (luckily it was pretty much as I remembered it from the last time through) as the last of passengers were submitting their tickets…when again, the world slowed to a crawl. Apparently, EVERYONE NEEDS to bring about three suitcase sized carry-ons with them, so after about 2/3 of the passengers had boarded, they ran out of room to stow. (Did I tell you about my theory on improving my mood during air travel? Sort passengers so those with no carry on sit closest to the door, those with underseat stowables are behind them, those with one suitcase go 3/4 of the way back, and the shitheads who feel the need to not check 1/2 of their baggage can sit the whole way in the back). Where was I?”
I like staggering their entrance onto the plane by their carryons as well! About time!