United Airlines will now board window seat passengers first

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Comments

[devopet]

No matter how they set it up people are going to stand up early at the gate, block the way, and just in general hinder the best efforts of the airline staff to get the plane to actually leave as quickly as possible.

[dejatrue]

[strangelittlex]

I've definitely seen people told to get back for Southwest, like C group trying to board with A.

[evilgerbil]

My husband does this. I don't like to because I feel like a jerk. There are few rules I'm strict about but I try to never cut in line.

[umilicious]

I don’t know why, but cutting in line bothers me more than many other etiquette offenses. People can get away with a lot, but I’ll call someone out if they pull that near me.

[chase65]

Because usually etiquette offenses aren't against a specific person but against standards, but when someone cuts in line and you are standing right there...it involves knowing people are there and deliberately pretending not to see them.

[mnemo_syne]

I saw someone told to wait at Delta a few weeks ago.

[passionless_me]

I sometimes have to travel with an enormous amount of medical supplies in my carry on and can't gate check, gate agents always tell me to board with the first non-first group. Even when other agents are checking tickets, they don't seem to notice. It's an honor system I guess!

[_myaugust]

It truly only happens (i.e., getting forced back) with priority or fast access boarding.

[shittysoup]

[hiimtish]

For real. Things like this and the shopping cart test is exactly why I have no faith in humanity

[kjesta]

never heard of the shopping cart test and just looked it up. if it cheers you up, in my country i'd say the return rate is nearly 100%, i never see trolleys just left on supermarket parking lots. i'm sure some of it has to do with the fact you put a coin (or a plastic coin) in the cart to use it and want to get it back, but we also tend to wait for traffic lights to turn green as pedestrians, even if it's 1am and there's no cars within sight anywhere lol. so i want to believe it's not just the money incentive.

[hiimtish]

Oh man where do you live because that sounds dreamy! America is on the exact opposite end of that spectrum…unless you go to Aldi, the only grocery store here that does the coin thing.

[kjesta]

funny you should bring up aldi. i'm from germany and it's a german company, so i'm not surprised they're doing it abroad lol. i think it might also have to do w the fact that it's not the employees' jobs to collect carts, so unless ppl want to be winding through a maze of carts, they better return those things.

[hiimtish]

Germany definitely makes sense then!!
I feel like in America capitalism is so warped that some people have convinced themselves by not returning carts they’re ‘giving’ cart wranglers a job. It’s wild!

[mishane]

The coin in shopping cart thing is/was an American thing too, at least in NJ when I was a kid. You put a quarter in the cart to take it and if you wanted your quarter back, you had to return the cart. I almost never saw random carts out. This was Costco or BJ’s but I feel like some shop-rites had it also.