I can understand how it may seem that more than half of the people take advantage of the pre-boarding policy. I'm sure there are people whom do take advantage of the system, it happens everywhere! You may think I would be one of them if you saw me, however things don't always seem to be as they appear. I have a severe anxiety and can't sit in the middle or back of the plane due to seeing all of these people in a small space causes me to have panic attacks. I also have a knee replacment that unfortunatley locks up on me that causes pain and for that reason I need to stand in the plane a lot of the times so I need an isle seat. For these reasons I get a pre-boarding pass and yes, my 2 children whom are not of age even to fly on there own, board with me. I guess before you go judge, as you may have me before, and have seen me as a healthy active person whom has no disability, think twice. The take away thought from this is, those who judge need to do some critical thinking and not pre-judge those whom you know nothing about. Again, I get that there are some people whom take advantage of this system and those that do, well there is nothing you're going do about it. Southwest isn't legally able to ask a customer as to a disabilty before giving them a pre-board pass, and they shouldn't be able to as it is not their business. Would you like to have to tell someone who is not a dr, nurse, etc. of a disability whether mental or physical to a complete stranger? Doubtfull. It is a seat on a plane for goodness sake, not a front row seat to the best sporting event or concert that you paid for and had to give up to sit in nose bleed seats. I myself have more things to worry about than this. I posted this as I felt it was something that needed to be brought up after all of the posts from this forum and others.
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