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United Airlines Resumes Pre-pandemic Boarding
In a memo to employees, United explains the reason for the change: Now that more customers are returning, this can result in customers gathering in the gate area to wait near the boarding door for their row to be called, ultimately defeating the social distancing purpose of back-to-front boarding. We’ve also found that back-to-front boarding can take longer and that the process can feel disorderly for customers. We know from recent surveys that an orderly boarding experience is one of the things… (liveandletsfly.com) Altro...
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there ARE reasons to preboard those who DO take longer to get into their seats and stow luggage, such as handicapped,oxygen,ubaccompanied minors, or even families with small children as they always have a lot of carry ons..the frequent flyers with the gold and platinum cards have been made to feel they are very special to the airlines, so they too have been given priority boarding..of course the airlines want the first class passengers (most of whom are not paying full fare, but using points and mileage for that seat)to feel "special" as well..then there is the rest of "the bus" who get to drag their carry on past the first class cabin and wonder about the "percs"..some of it has a purpose,some of it is merely for marketing purposes..basically its back to the "cattle car" and covid, whats that????
