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Old Dec 30, 2011 | 5:52 pm
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Originally Posted by captaink
Earlier this year, a family of kettles boarded, walked back to about row 30 on a 757, looked at their boarding passes (for the first time? maybe...) realized that they were in row 20-something, looked baffled for a moment, then realized that 20 comes before 30 in almost every number system.
Originally Posted by AKC6
Let's be fair. Who besides FF's would expect the first row to be 19 (if they boarded 2L)?
I submit that it almost as logical that what we think of as the "last" row of seats (nearest the tail) should be numbered row 1.
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