Originally Posted by
ATOBTTR
Side note: do announcements about "if you don't have a tight connection or this is your final destination, please stay seated to allow those with connections to get off sooner" really matter or do they just make people feel better that the airline is putting on a front of trying to do something?
I have not once seen that announcement actually work for the passengers who need it. Flyers are collectively all jerks who immediately fill the aisles, open bins, and use every last inch of path space with our rollaboards as soon as the fasten seat belt sign goes off at the gate.