Southwest in Atl 19 APR
04-22-2019, 11:36 PM
#32
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You can't be serious. The Delta boarding process is the most harried, chaotic mess I've ever experienced. Nobody has more gate lice clogging up the boarding gate and slowing the whole thing down, and they multiply every time the next zone is called, making it all but impossible to get to the door.
04-23-2019, 12:33 AM
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You can't be serious. The Delta boarding process is the most harried, chaotic mess I've ever experienced. Nobody has more gate lice clogging up the boarding gate and slowing the whole thing down, and they multiply every time the next zone is called, making it all but impossible to get to the door.
The poor people have to walk two feet to the side without a blue mat to go down the same jetway.
04-23-2019, 07:03 AM
#34
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You can't be serious. The Delta boarding process is the most harried, chaotic mess I've ever experienced. Nobody has more gate lice clogging up the boarding gate and slowing the whole thing down, and they multiply every time the next zone is called, making it all but impossible to get to the door.
I was referring to scheduled ground times allotted at Delta (vs. SWA) that allowed on-time departures. Cancellations, misconnects and delays increasingly plague SW because they schedule ground times as if they're still operating out of small outlying airports. Point-to-point has given way to more connections thru increasingly saturated hubs like LAX, DEN, ATL, PHX, LAS, MCO which require a LOT more ground time; since ground time wastes money, WN tries to make it up with speed boarding. As mentioned throughout this thread, it doesn't appear to be working.
"Instead of rushed and chaotic boarding processes designed to accommodate unrealistically short ground times, DAL sacrifices the time profitably spent in the air to allow on time, orderly scheduled departures."
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04-23-2019, 10:13 AM
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I get a chuckle out of the separate “Sky Priority Boarding Lane” with a special blue mat you get to walk on. All for the added privilege to leave your seat in the lounge or boarding area for a smaller, possibly hotter seat on the plane to sit there an extra 20 minutes.
The poor people have to walk two feet to the side without a blue mat to go down the same jetway.
The poor people have to walk two feet to the side without a blue mat to go down the same jetway.
Bottom line, they wouldn't do it if it didn't work. Mostly it serves for the priority pax who spend every last second in the lounge to walk right up and on to the jet without getting in the zone 1,2,3 etc lines.
04-23-2019, 11:15 AM
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04-23-2019, 03:03 PM
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You know it goes into that human psyche that in the back of their mind the "sky priority" are getting something a little different (mostly a shot at an overhead bin without hassle) that they are willing to part with even an incremental amount of premium fare, maybe even just excessively using their AMEX card.
Bottom line, they wouldn't do it if it didn't work. Mostly it serves for the priority pax who spend every last second in the lounge to walk right up and on to the jet without getting in the zone 1,2,3 etc lines.
Bottom line, they wouldn't do it if it didn't work. Mostly it serves for the priority pax who spend every last second in the lounge to walk right up and on to the jet without getting in the zone 1,2,3 etc lines.
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