1,221 Reasons Not to work for Southwest
06-29-2023, 08:01 PM
#691
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Originally Posted by Zard;[url=tel:3658484
3658484[/url]]We need to force the issue. You cannot deplane without a chair if you needed one to board. It’s too much liability for the company to assume, and in this day and age you can never be too careful. Wheelchairs passengers are free to pre board and sit where they like, but they should have to deplane last as it’s safer with more room and less objects in the way, and there’s a much greater likelihood the wheelchair pushers will actually be there with their chairs.
Ever notice how the people who obviously need a wheelchair usually have a system that works for them and wait til there’s plenty of room and plenty of assistance before they make their way off the plane, almost like they’ve done it before and aren’t doing it to scam the system?
Ever notice how the people who obviously need a wheelchair usually have a system that works for them and wait til there’s plenty of room and plenty of assistance before they make their way off the plane, almost like they’ve done it before and aren’t doing it to scam the system?
06-29-2023, 08:05 PM
#692
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Just another self inflicted wound resulting from no seat assignments. You don’t see Delta clearing out the first row of first class so preboarders can sit wherever they want.
Make it an exit row. You’re going to have to move ABPs into that row if there’s a planned evacuation anyway. Make it easy. No preboards in row one.
Make it an exit row. You’re going to have to move ABPs into that row if there’s a planned evacuation anyway. Make it easy. No preboards in row one.
06-29-2023, 08:19 PM
#693
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Originally Posted by WhyIFly;[url=tel:3658500
3658500[/url]]I used to fly on Southwest all the time for corporate travel before I entered the airline pilot world (was engineering before that). Flying out of San Juan one day about 12 years ago and a line of more than 40 wheelchairs when I was supposed to be one of the first few people to board. I was furious and vowed never to fly on southwest again. And I haven't.
06-29-2023, 08:44 PM
#694
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Now where the ph**k did I put my cafe con leche?!
06-30-2023, 04:07 AM
#696
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perhaps, but can you imagine the subset of our flight attendants who power tripped over the masks now get to have the power to enforce people getting off the plane? I think a policy of forcing people who preboarded with a wheelchair to leave with a wheel chair would be a disaster.
06-30-2023, 05:53 AM
#697
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perhaps, but can you imagine the subset of our flight attendants who power tripped over the masks now get to have the power to enforce people getting off the plane? I think a policy of forcing people who preboarded with a wheelchair to leave with a wheel chair would be a disaster.
yea, that’s true. Something has to change. Assigned seating would be the easiest but since we haven’t invented that yet, there’s no way an airline could do that and still make money.
06-30-2023, 07:00 AM
#698
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the idea is you pay extra or accumulate status that is no benefit because of others scamming the system. That’s why they don’t want us to board early because the a-lister getting to the gate on time ends up losing his preferred seat because the plane is half boarded.
assigned seats would solve this and many other problems.
assigned seats would solve this and many other problems.
06-30-2023, 09:23 AM
#699
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the idea is you pay extra or accumulate status that is no benefit because of others scamming the system. That’s why they don’t want us to board early because the a-lister getting to the gate on time ends up losing his preferred seat because the plane is half boarded.
assigned seats would solve this and many other problems.
assigned seats would solve this and many other problems.
06-30-2023, 09:49 PM
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