Originally Posted by
Jalinth
I can understand the wheeled bag slowing things down based on everyone taking 3 attempts at getting it in the overhead but the elimination of the smoking section? Was it that paxs rushed off the plane to breathe?
Smoking sections were typically in the rear of the cabin. So in the early days on SWA there was a rush to go the back of the airplane, light up and see how many free bloody mary's you could consume.
Trivia: In the 80's I was on a Japan Airlines flight LAX to Narita. I was in First and noticed that there were only two of us sitting on the left side. It was because the smoking section in F was on the right side. Before takeoff the other person moved to the smoking section so I was the only American on the left side. All the Japanese businessmen were on the right puffing away.