I am very unhappy that families with young children will no longer be allowed to board first. Please don't proceed with implementing this portion of your new procedures nationwide. I live in Nevada, have three daughters under age 4, and travel Southwest each time we visit my mother in North Carolina. We always use car seats on the flights for each girl. Even with pre-boarding, it takes my husband and I quite a while to get all three car seats buckled in. And even though I try, I might not always be in the "A" group. If we are not "A"s, our chances of finding 5 seats adjacent to each other just substantially decreased as well. I would say I won't fly Southwest with my family again, but I think I'll continue to do so in part so you can see how much time our not boarding first actually COSTS instead of saves. It may also spread my children throughout the aircraft to give more passengers the "toddler on a 5 hour flight" experience.
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