I am glad that Southwest is going to assign the numbers to passengers. However, I am bothered by the lack of family friendly service during boarding at Southwest. Our family enjoys flying the airline because the attendants are so nice and the flights are usually on time. But now they say they will not let families with small children board early. My main concern with that is that we always buy a seat for our 1 year old and install her car seat in it. It takes the entire time people are boarding for us to install that seat properly and get buckled in. If we are not allowed to get on first, the whole plane will be waiting on us to get finished before we can taxi out for take off. Maybe it wasn't the right decision.
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