Let's do the math. I fly at least twice a year with a family of five. That is TEN tickets a year. This is probably more than your average business class person.
I think that the person who buys the most tickets on a flight should board first. Let the single ticket buyers fill in the empty seats.
Anytime the flight is delayed by families trying to manuever sitting together, manage car seats, diaper bags, etc it will slow down the seating process.
SO FAMILIES UNITE!!
GET UP 20 TIMES DURING THE FLIGHT, TO GET ITEMS THAT YOUR HUSBAND HAS IN THE DIAPER BAG, WHO IS SEATED 10 ROWS IN FRONT OF YOU. CALL SOCIAL SERVICES WHEN YOUR 5 YEAR OLD IS SEATED 6 ROWS BEHIND YOU. HOLD UP THE PLANE UNTIL SOUTHWEST CAN FIGURE IT OUT.
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Why don't you think about it like this, "Whoever buys the most tickets boards first". That way my family of 5 will always be on first and sitting within a reasonable distance of myself or my husband.
The business traveler is alone, with a laptop and nothing better to do than stand in line and make sur they are the first on the plane. I have seen it time and time again. The "grown up" person traveling alone should be last to board and fill in whereever there is an empty seat. Who cares the seats are all the same. The only people who really care where they sit are the families. They need to be able to tend to their children. Why not let them have that priority? They bought the most tickets, I am sure.
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NO YOU ARE NOT LISTENING!!!!!!
MY FAMILY OF 5 is the problem. We are now all over 5yrs old and not eligible to board first.
The problem is not the first leg of our trip, when we can get on the computer and obtain an A Boarding Pass. The problem is on the return home from grandmom's with no computer, or vacation land with no computer access, or if we just plain forgot to obtain the pass 24 hrs ahead.
We should not be put through the worry of stressed out kids who think for hours that we can't sit together.
During the holidays when we board a plane sometimes it is already enroute, meaning even an A Boarding pass may not get you a seat together. Believe me when you are traveling with children under the age of 12 sitting together is a BIG DEAL.
Check out the Virgin Air website, it lets people pick and reserve their own seats.
WHY CAN"T WE JUST GET A SEAT ASSIGNMENT????? IN THIS DAY AND AGE OF COMPUTERS.
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