Do preassigned seats make sense for regular economy class?
#31
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Those tests also assume that all the passengers are in the boarding area when the gate opens, that they follow instructions, that bags are the right side, etc. There's enough variability in reality that I'm not so sure any of it matters.
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Passengers are too chaotic to make the random boarding order work. If airlines wanted to speed up boarding, they would start by doing preboarding (have people queue in their respective block, gate check big items, scold the passengers that arrive with 8 carry-on) and give incentives to passengers to check their bags.
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Which isn't really all that different from the legacy carriers with F and elites.
Those tests also assume that all the passengers are in the boarding area when the gate opens, that they follow instructions, that bags are the right side, etc. There's enough variability in reality that I'm not so sure any of it matters.
Those tests also assume that all the passengers are in the boarding area when the gate opens, that they follow instructions, that bags are the right side, etc. There's enough variability in reality that I'm not so sure any of it matters.
Passengers are too chaotic to make the random boarding order work. If airlines wanted to speed up boarding, they would start by doing preboarding (have people queue in their respective block, gate check big items, scold the passengers that arrive with 8 carry-on) and give incentives to passengers to check their bags.
If people are really well-coached, then an orderly process would work better.
150 Flyertalkers could load a 737 in five minutes if we had 1 hour to practice and enough incentive to care.
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I fly multiple non-WN carriers, although I prefer the legacy carriers. To sit in economy, you pick economy at check out and select a seat unless you are flying in that airline's version of ultra economy where seat selection is not available. I would not fly any airline's ultra economy version of seating because it matter to me where I sit as well as sitting next to my travel companion. But regular economy seating seems to be easy enough and comes with an assigned seat.
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I fly WN and I fly assigned seating carriers. WN is fine for regional flights, but I wouldn't want to fly a transcon with them. I much prefer an assigned E+ seat.
The issue of getting decent seats on tight connections is also there with WN, while with a reserved seat I can get on the plane with the door closing behind me and still get my assigned aisle in E+.
#36
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I find these arguments are generally not about boarding efficiency, but overhead space as in non-status passengers want the same access to overhead binds as status first-boarding passengers do (As non-status, usually travels at the back of the BUS).
Okay we, will board from the back, the first 1/3 to board from the back get ZERO overhead space and no-carryon luggage Still want this style of boarding?
Okay we, will board from the back, the first 1/3 to board from the back get ZERO overhead space and no-carryon luggage Still want this style of boarding?