Ken et al., Southwest has open seating - no reservations. They board in 3 groups, A, B, & C. Your group assignment to A, B, or C depends on when you sign-in, at the airport or on-line up to 24 hours ahead. At the gate, the A's are asked to queue up by number (A-1 to A-36), then are boarded. Similarly, B-1 to B-36 are queued up and boarded then C-1 to C-36. In the last year traveling on Southwest, I've seen families with kids asked to board BETWEEN the A's and B's. I don't think there enough A's to occupy one of the seats in each row. So this is a moor point. The guy could have had a row to himself with his kids. Regards, Bob S.
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Kenneth Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > Which begs the question of why didn't the father get all kids seated together > when he made the reservations? > > > -----Original Message----- >>From: Bill <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: OT - And didn't like how photographers were treated? >> >>On 25/07/2014 6:33 PM, Stanley Halpin wrote: >>> >> >>> >>> 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. >> >>Sorry Stan, I really don't think not wanting to be separated from your >>kids in an airport is any more idiotic than the security theater fliers >>are supposed to put up with because of the mindless rules being imposed >>by TSA drones. >>One could easily see the situation escalating into a child abandonment >>issue or some such if the gate attendant didn't want to deal with children. >> >>bill > > > > -- > 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. -- 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.
