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SFGate<\/a>: Southwest Airlines unveils new boarding policy, where passengers board in order of window seats first, middle seats, and aisle seats last<\/span><\/p>\n At this point, I really should start implementing a tag on my brog for Southwest, because they keep doing things that I keep finding brog-worthy and then I actually write about them, as if I\u2019m chronicling their gradual downward spiral.\u00a0 They just can\u2019t keep doing questionable things, and I feel like that at the corporate level, there\u2019s some obnoxious visionary who is trying way too hard to put their stamp on the company by making all these questionable choices for really no other reason than the sake of making them, and probably gets off on words like \u201cdisrupting\u201d and \u201caviation space.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n But circling back to this new boarding process, where windows get on first, and aisles get on last, I just feel like this is something that seems destined to fail, on account of people just not adhering to the rule, and the amount of outcry it\u2019s inevitably going to cause because it\u2019s just not working the way SWA corporate envisioned it working.<\/span><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter what airline it is, in the hierarchy of passengers, middle seat is supposed to be the very bottom of the pecking order.\u00a0 Even in old Southwest internal lexicon such a notion was commonplace, where flight attendants would even make tongue-in-cheek jokes about the old boarding process, where Group A stood for Anywhere, as in you can sit anywhere you want, Group B stood for Back of the plane, because that\u2019s where all the remaining good seats are, and Group C stood for Center seat, because that\u2019s all that\u2019s going to be left for you bottom feeders.<\/span><\/p>\n Deliberately creating a policy where the positions are forcefully switched is not going to go over well at all, because not only are passengers who prefer aisles not going to handle being considered bottom-tier very well, imagine the people who hate window seats but like getting on the aircrafts as soon as possible having to deal with this new Sophie\u2019s Choice; status vs. preference vs. potential cost differences.\u00a0 And middle seats still lose, because although their tier might be considered elevated over aisle-seat losers, when the flight takes off, they\u2019re still parked in the middle seat, most likely squished between two fat fucks because Americans are always going to be a bunch of fat fucks.<\/span><\/p>\n My favorite part about this whole announcement was this quote:<\/span><\/p>\n If queuing isn\u2019t good, boarding isn\u2019t good,” Lisa Hingson, managing director of innovation, told the Wall Street Journal. \u201cSo we spent a lot of time studying queuing.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Studying queueing, lmao.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing to study when it comes to queueing, because a study doesn\u2019t account for the infinite variable that is there are a few billion asshole airline passengers in the world, and there\u2019s no finite way to factor for some flights having none of them on any given flight, or some having many of them.<\/span><\/p>\n Sure, there are plenty of people that will be willing to adhere and give the system a chance, but then there are always, always<\/em> going to be just a few of them that have zero intention of sticking to the plan, and nothing short of the gate agent enforcing the queue and stopping any and all violators from boarding too early, this is going to fail 100% of the time.\u00a0 Those gate agents probably don\u2019t get paid enough nor do they give enough fucks to even try to stop asshole passengers from jumping in whenever they want and ruining the process for the entire flight, and departure times and delays are inevitably going to get wrecked by this, and in the grand spectrum calculus of airline operations, it\u2019s only a matter of time before this shitty idea is quietly scrapped and they return to more traditional, fall-in-line boarding process.<\/span><\/p>\n Somewhere else in this whole thing, I have to be curious on how this is going to impact the whole, large passenger policy that Southwest used to be applauded for in having, where large passengers had the possibility of getting a free adjacent seat if the flight had availability.\u00a0 If there are going to be price tiers in accordance to boarding priority, surely there will be new ways for people to try and game the system in order to save a few bucks, and I have to wonder if SWA people thought this through enough to merge with existing policies in place, unless said policies were on the chopping block for restructure in order to not lose money on these new potential pricing tiers.<\/span><\/p>\n Either way, I can\u2019t imagine that this is going to end well.\u00a0 I like to imagine that when this shit rolls out, it won\u2019t take more than the first flight, before passengers, by virtue of being selfish dicks or just plain ignorance, queues up out of order, isn\u2019t stopped at the gate, and boards when they shouldn\u2019t have.\u00a0 They sit down in an aisle, take up overhead space with their carry-on, and later on in the boarding, someone who\u2019s a middle seat passenger is denied overhead space, and\/or is jilted over having to wait for the prior aisle-seat dick to get out of the way so they can board, and already the flight experience is stained.<\/span><\/p>\n Before we know it, a fight breaks out, and 12 people record it on their phones from differing angles, and Southwest is back in the news again for another passenger fight, and absolutely nothing has changed at all.<\/span><\/p>\n gg Southwest, look forward to the next bonehead disruptor idea y\u2019all come up with next.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SFGate: Southwest Airlines unveils new boarding policy, where passengers board in order of window seats first, middle seats, and aisle seats last At this 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