Originally Posted by
ave1024
I don't know why people think preboards are going to go down once assigned seats happen. On popular elderly routes like FL I think you will see just as many. At worst maybe 75% of the current total. And what's going to happen is these immobile people will take longer to board because their seats are all over the place. Add that to the typically longer boarding time that assigned seats has and it's going to be real interesting how SW will be able to turn planes around as quickly as they currently do.
Is boarding after the preboarders really affecting your seat preference, maybe outside of sitting in the first 8-10 rows?
1st bold: It's been explained thousands of times, with hundreds of threads dedicated to it. There is some non-zero percent of pre-boarders who don't really need to pre-board but do it to sit in the first few rows. Picking your seat once onboard goes away with seat assignments.
2nd bold: The first 10 rows on a 700 are 40% of the plane. Hardly anyone intentionally goes to the back of the plane if the front is still open. So yes, it significantly impacts seat selection