My family just flew Southwest two times in the past month and loved the family pre-boarding aspect, as well as the clean planes. We liked being among other families and did not mind hearing babies crying because we are parents. I guess Southwest has chosen to ignore the Maritz Research survey in which 73% of respondents believe there should be a family section on airplanes. SW was accomplishing this goal with the family pre-board in that the families sat in the front. Now that families will board between A and B, the families will be all over the plane, bothering more passengers since they will be in the front/middle. Those who complained about families getting special treatment I guess will not get the last laugh in that now they will be sitting beside the screaming child who sits next to them after they have already boarded. With the family preboarding process, those who wanted to avoid children could do so by seeing where the young children were sitting.
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