Southwest Airlines will no longer board families first automatically, and it's about fucking time, for exactly the reason Southwest CEO Gary Kelly says: It is not fair for families to jump a line ahead of passengers who got their boarding passes ahead of time, just because they happen to have children.
I don't care how many kids you have, or how tired they are, or how tired you are. If I got to the gate an hour ago to get my boarding pass, I deserve to board ahead of you. Plain and simple. If you're disabled, or ill, or elderly, then I have no problem letting you board ahead of me because you aren't as robust as I am and you need to be seated more quickly, or have special seating arrangements. If you have a group of munchkins with you and that's your sole claim to seating privileges, too bad. Take your place in line - behind me - and wait.
This might, maybe, be enough to get me to start flying Southwest again.
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Southwest Airlines grows a set of balls
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7 comments:
Rock on, Southwest!
Damn right! We are not second class citizens!
If I were in the US, I would fly Southwest.
I truly think that there should be a kid-free airline.
When you folks get older, the only thing you'll have to look forward to is a slow lonely death, hopefully in a clean nursing home. If you're really lucky, the staff will speak English.
Your ideas will die with you, because the only people who share and propagate them are childless, like you.
As for SouthWest... whatever. They can do what they want, being a private business. I just won't patronise them.
Hey Captain-
Death would be most merciful. It means we won't to endure the narrow-mindedness of asshats like you.
The only people that will tend to me in my dotage will be Smith&Wesson.
Cheers!
Only problem I see with this is I like them getting seated first. Then I know where they are going to sit and I can stay far far away from their screaming kids.
Yeah, FSM forbid we should actually, I dunno, write things down. Sigh. I wish people with kids would stop patronising me, too, let alone airlines.
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