Preboarders Sitting in Emergency Exit Rows
Jun 16, 2017, 2:46 pm
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Jun 16, 2017, 3:14 pm
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IIRC this is what Southwest does, but I wouldn't like the precedent of DL copying WN. I buy tickets on DL partly because I do not want to fly on WN.
Jun 16, 2017, 3:40 pm
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Or to put it another way, if you were to discover something (purely hypothetical if you like) that you thought WN actually did better, would you still hope that DL did not adopt it out of spite? Or would you just refuse to acknowledge that it's better
Speaking of copying good things, I noticed stroopwafels in the snack basket this morning
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Jun 16, 2017, 3:42 pm
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That seems irrational. For any aspect where you WN's policy/product/whatever is not as good as DL's, then it's inferior for whatever reason it's inferior, not simply because "that's how WN does it".
Or to put it another way, if you were to discover something (purely hypothetical if you like) that you thought WN actually did better, would you still hope that DL did not adopt it out of spite? Or would you just refuse to acknowledge that it's better
Speaking of copying good things, I noticed stroopwafels in the snack basket this morning (Delta Connection flight operated by CP)
Or to put it another way, if you were to discover something (purely hypothetical if you like) that you thought WN actually did better, would you still hope that DL did not adopt it out of spite? Or would you just refuse to acknowledge that it's better
Speaking of copying good things, I noticed stroopwafels in the snack basket this morning
(Delta Connection flight operated by CP)
Jun 16, 2017, 3:45 pm
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That seems irrational. For any aspect where you WN's policy/product/whatever is not as good as DL's, then it's inferior for whatever reason it's inferior, not simply because "that's how WN does it".
Or to put it another way, if you were to discover something (purely hypothetical if you like) that you thought WN actually did better, would you still hope that DL did not adopt it out of spite? Or would you just refuse to acknowledge that it's better
Speaking of copying good things, I noticed stroopwafels in the snack basket this morning (Delta Connection flight operated by CP)
Or to put it another way, if you were to discover something (purely hypothetical if you like) that you thought WN actually did better, would you still hope that DL did not adopt it out of spite? Or would you just refuse to acknowledge that it's better
Speaking of copying good things, I noticed stroopwafels in the snack basket this morning
(Delta Connection flight operated by CP)
Jun 16, 2017, 5:32 pm
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Every time I have pre-boarded I was allowed to leave the plane without waiting for the entire plan to empty. I believe this is because I was sitting within 2 or 3 rows of the main door and had an aisle seat. A couple of times I the airline wanted me to go first because I had a close connection and an agent was going to wheel me to a gate on the other side of the airport.
Jun 16, 2017, 5:53 pm
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Every time I have pre-boarded I was allowed to leave the plane without waiting for the entire plan to empty. I believe this is because I was sitting within 2 or 3 rows of the main door and had an aisle seat. A couple of times I the airline wanted me to go first because I had a close connection and an agent was going to wheel me to a gate on the other side of the airport.
Jun 16, 2017, 7:04 pm
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I understand that. My only point was no one asked me to wait until everyone else disembarked.
Jun 16, 2017, 9:40 pm
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However, I remember during the road warrior training at the DL ATL DO, there was some emphasis on putting the door on the seat and not just tossing it away from the aircraft. Our instructor speculated that this was to avoid damage to the door rather than concern that it would be in the way and perhaps impede deployment of the slide from another door (window exits are overwing and don't have slides on any aircraft type AFAIK) or block passengers from getting away from the aircraft after exiting, but I wasn't convinced.
Jun 17, 2017, 1:51 am
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While injured, I never blocked the jetway. The only problem I had was with a rude pax who thought he was better than everyone else. The GA stopped the arrogant fool from trying to cut in front of me while boarding and placed him at the end of the line for being a jerk.
Jun 17, 2017, 7:18 am
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Jun 17, 2017, 8:38 am
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there's generally a line in the safety briefing to the effect of "the main (as in 'full-size') doors have detachable slides that may be used as rafts")