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Old Jun 12, 2018, 1:14 am
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atword
 
Join Date: Dec 2014
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Originally Posted by 1120
I'm not exactly sure if this is DYKWIA, but it was crazy.

UA321 yesterday (MCO-IAH) boarding yesterday. There's an older woman in a wheelchair for preboarding. She had nine people with her to "assist" and that's got to be a record. I and the other folks in Group 1 started laughing when we saw the number of people with her. I'd have no problem with two or three people, but nine? Due to ugly IRROPS, I actually got to see this three times.

This was followed by another passenger that tried to preboard with a kid that was at least eight years old. At least the GAs stopped that one.
Southwest limits the number of helpers. Perhaps United could as well to avoid abuse? This is probably not a big deal though and I can see the humor in their boldness.
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