On Jul 25, 2014, at 7:11 PM, Bill <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25/07/2014 2:52 PM, John Francis wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:07:44PM -0400, Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>> Small minded hardly does this one justice. Wouldn't let the passenger >>> bring his *kids* on board with him on his early boarding status? >>> Beggars belief. >> >> That was my initial reaction, too. >> >> But bear in mind that this is SouthWest Airlines; they don't have pre- >> assigned seating, so the earlier you board the plane, the better your >> choice of seating. On most other airlines families with young children >> get early boarding status automatically, but they'll still be ending up >> in the same seats they'd have anyway. >> >> > > In the Southwest model, I suspect it is entirely possible that dad might be > in 3A, one child in 7B and the other one in 13D or some such. > > bill > In my experience with Southwest, when a group (family or otherwise) was separated into different cattle chutes, then the first one on board would “reserve” seats for the others by placing items on the chosen seats, sitting in the aisle sit and not letting others pass to get to the other two, etc. Which the father could easily have done in this case which makes his reaction even more idiotic. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
