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Flew two CO legs today and at both airports, the boarding machine beeps and requires operator intervention when someone is boarding an exit row. It is a huge interruption to the boarding process and with 5656 flights a day, a 5 second delay for a dozen exit row passengers (average) is four man-days wasted every day (one minute per flight).

Side-note, the new warm nuts and hot cookies even on short flights is a nice improvement.

I noticed this change last week- huge time waste- they asked each exit row passengers the exit row questions (probably good, as the flight attendants never could seem to be bothered to do it), you know, "Do you speak English? Are you willing to help the crew in an emergency?" That stuff.

And, side note, your warmed nuts and cookies evidently came at the expense of the salad and dessert that CO previously served in first class on dinner flights. If the other thread is to be believed.

Agree, and happened to me this week. It definitely holds up the line and the FA on board still asks the questions. Has there been a problem with lots of non-English speaking 14 year olds sneaking into exit seats?

The system knows how old I am. Why not exempt elites, who should not object to being tossed from an exit seat if ineligible as they should know better. And what's the procedure if the GA doesn't believe the passenger is exit row eligible?

If there's some external rule that now requires this, then let the people in the exit row go to the GA and get "pre-cleared" so that it doesn't hold up boarding.

I got the warm cashews and warm cookie offer on a flight where the dinner was a salad.

Based on last night's SFO-EWR p.s., flight, yes. Family of six all tried to sit
together, but had two boys in the Exit Rows. FA was a bit frantic until two pax
agreed to move (from 10 to 5).

Of course, I couldn't sleep, as there were not one but two wailers and a cranky four-year old behind me.

So it happens...though I am seeing a bigger emphasis on exit-row seating lately.

The best part of PMCO FC dinner was the soup, and I noticed that was missing on my CLE-PHX flight last night. Hope soup isn't gone with the merger.

Mushroom soup was served on a CO B753 flying MCO-IAH last night.

Good- the mushroom is my favorite CO soup!
I was just repeating what was posted in another thread...

US has been doing this for a while. The reduction in the otherwise infrequent, but time-consuming, on-board seat swaps probably makes up for the more frequent loss of a few extra seconds.

I have memories of flying NW TATL as a little kid and playing with toys on the floor by the 747 exits. :D

Always good policy to state unconfirmed speculation as fact.

Oh yes preventing people for sitting in exit row that are not eligible is really not worth 5-20 seconds per passenger.

quite the annoyance on US Air Flights but I guess no big deal if it spreads to CO Flight and possibly UA flights as we start a final merge.

I believe DL has been doing it for years.

?? I never considered it a 'huge' interruption and I always take exit rows if I have the choice. I've rarely been asked any questions, except out of CDG.

Of course, the 'beeep...you have a new, upgraded boarding pass' takes a little longer because the new BP has to print out, but I don't mind that either. :D

Which flights from SFO to EWR are ps flights?
any of them with 3 class service or with UA type business class seats?