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Southwest Airlines Testing Enhanced Boarding {Gadling}
Aug 30th 2007 2:05AM I like it!
I was flying Southwest from SLC to PHX on Friday afternoon. In SLC all Southwest gates are in a small circle maybe 10-20 feet apart. At 4-5 p.m., every gate was in action unloading and quickly loading from B-13 to B-18. people were in line 50-80 minutes prior to flight time making a royal mess. I was in the "B" line but I wasn't sure if it was the B-18 or the B-15, "B" line. I asked others close by who were similarly confused, standing so as to not get a middle seat. The Houston-Hobby Southwest gates are the same way. There isn't enough room for people to get in line an hour a head of every flight in 3 long lines per gate. Even on delayed flights no one moved from the lines, they just stayed the 60 minutes a head of time in addition to the 45 minute delay.
THANKS BE TO THE POWERS THAT BE, that we have some common sense out there. This isn't Russia, we hate lines in the US. Why stand for all this time to them be smashed together 6 across? Now we can sit and relax until the numbers are called. And no Virginia, it isn't going to be #1, now #2, #3 etc. They will call 1-30, then board the families before calling 31-60, followed by the rest of the plane. So it won't matter if you are #1 or #30, just so you aren't #31.
