Originally Posted by
drat19
Most importantly, I was THRILLED that AA boards the plane by Zones instead of the coach free-for-all that is NW's coach boarding process. By just making sure I was among the first to board when my Zone was called, I had no problems/issues with The War for Overhead Storage (TM).
thanks for the AA-report. ^
Well, Delta
also boards by Zones; so, if the
evil 
merger does go through, I'm going to guess that Zone boarding will be the common procedure for the new DL/NW.