United Airlines will now board window seat passengers first

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[nutella_forever]

If a parent with child books two adjacent seats, the option is to either to let their child board alone first on the window seat and try to put the luggage in the overhead bin alone or to board first, leaving the child behind to board later alone? 😅

[la_loony]

I'd assume that children have to board with their present legal guardian if they are still minors.

[mystic_kiwi]

I assume this won't change the "families will small children or people who need more time may board first" thing

[blahblah890]

This was not an intelligent comment.

[peasantings]

I just flew United last week. But I’m traveling JetBlue next week. So I have just barely on this WILMA thing. Bummer for me?

[lanrek]

i love jetblue I wish they flew everywhereeeee

[saturdaysinbed]

i do love jetblue so much though. we had a five hour delay last week from minneapolis to boston and they kept giving us snacks the whole time.

[infragr33n]

Literally flew JetBlue on Wednesday and I was floored at how good the free in-flight wifi is. It's at "surf the web and use Spotify with no interruptions" quality...good enough for me!

[manu19]

How is that gonna work if you are traveling with your children or elderly? Is a 80 year old supposed to board on her own or is a 6 year old kid supposed to put up the suitcase on its own while it’s mother is still waiting outside to board for her middle seat? What if it’s one of those planes, that aren’t right by the gate and you have to take a bus? lol there are so many different scenarios, it doesn’t save shit.

[invisiblegirlx]

Priority boarding is still a thing, no? I don't think they thought this out well though in terms of the human element. People who come together are not going to want to board separately.

[archersangel]

That's something they didn't account for in the Mythbusters episode about airplane boarding. They just asked the volunteers who showed up if they liked the plan or not.

[blahblah890]

Another one...I feel like people have lost commonsense. People with minors and the elderly always board early. It literally says they will do this after initial boarding groups.

[skyler_white_yo]

How’s this gonna work with families who want to ensure they sit together? Don’t people have to pay more to pick their seat?

[la_loony]

Don't you have your seats picked before boarding and at check-in?

[mystic_kiwi]

Yeah I never pay to pick my seat and have always had it assigned at check in, or occasionally at the gate. If you're a family that needs to sit together I think you pretty much have to pay at purchase. I always just gamble and 99% of the time I've still been able to sit with the person I bought my tickets with but I wouldn't do that if sitting together was important

[la_loony]

I just used the online check-in that starts like 24 hours before the flight to pick my seat without paying extra, worked fine when I flew with my friends too, we talked to each other where we saw enough empty seats together and went for those^^

[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.