Where are the humorous responses that were promised?
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Note to Paul T who said "Start your own airline which has only 40 seats on a 737. Good luck making it profitable!"
Huh? Yeeeaaahhh...I suppose that's an alternative. Not quite sure what your point is since I never suggested they change the config of their planes. But, ok.
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Wait, I just re-read that guy's comment. You're more valuable because you oversee FORTY people? Ooooooo!!! Can I have some Grey Poupon???
Dude, if you're THAT important why are you on Southwest?
Forty people...bwaa-ha-ha-ha-ha.......
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I love the comments from those who complain that pre-boarding isn't fair. Are handicap parking spaces fair???
And for those who continue to say "why does it matter what seat you get, the front of the plane arrives at the same time as the rear," please grow to 6'-8" and then tell me it doesn't matter where you sit.
And you really gotta love the guy right above who thinks his time is more important that anyone else's.
Is this a great site, or what?
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Rob, to answer your Q: I just wonder how often these families and tall people - especially those who travel on short notice - get their Ã
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I'm almost 6'-8", so I've got exactly 10 seats on an SWA flight that are somewhat comfortable to choose from (6 in front, 3 over the left wing, and 1 over the right wing). If I don't check in 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds before my flight, I'm skee-rooed. This oughta be real fun (and easy) to do from the car. At 6:20 in the morning. In the middle of nowhere.
So I'm not exactly looking forward to the change. But I'll give it a shot.
The pre-board thing is a different story. I LIKE getting them out of the way, even if they do always end up taking 6 of those 10 seats. I can't wait until I'm behind a 3 year old pulling her Dora roller bag down 20 aisles, getting the wheels stuck on every seat, stopping to pick up paper clips, and getting yelled at by mom to keep up with them (and take the paper clips out of their mouth). And then wait for mom to put in a child seat, put the infant in it, then get the 3 year old settled, then put the bags in the overhead, and THEN I can move on to my seat...not gonna be fun. How exactly does this speed the boarding process?
I don't care if Cousin Ernesto gets a good seat because there is a toddler in his family, let's get them in and settled before the masses stampede in.
I suspect this policy will change the day after someone drops a roller bag on some kid's head and gets $20 million out of SWA.
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