Moonagi t1_j1vbkqd wrote on December 27, 2022 at 5:54 PM

Fuck Southwest for not assigning seats. Takes forever to board their planes. Hope this puts them out of business.

jabbadarth t1_j1vze4v wrote on December 27, 2022 at 8:32 PM

What?

Southwest has the fastest boarding times across all airlines.

>Southwest Airline’s boarding method – no assigned seats, no assigned order – proved to be the fastest, at 14.07 minutes, which was a whopping 47 percent faster than back-to-front

Also boarding method and assigned seats have absolutely nothing to do with this issue and you are welcome to fly any other airline.

Do you honestly want one of the largest domestic airlines that employs tens of thousands of people to go out of business? Specificly an airline that has a hub locally where thousands are employed specifically because an entire wing of our airport was built to handle their traffic?

I dont know about you but I want as much competition as possible for air travel. Losing airlines means we get closer and closer to a monopoly and thats bad for consumers.

LearnestHemingway t1_j1wdr0q wrote on December 27, 2022 at 10:08 PM

I was already thinking OP has probably flown once in their life and had a bad experience with SW. Before even reading your stats, anecdotally, I go on 15-20 work trips a year so like 30-40 one way flights and Southwest is by far the fastest boarding experience consistently. Just line em up and load em in. No zone loading, no searching around for assigned seats.

The worst is when it's a half full flight and American still has to stick to their loading protocol so it takes almost as long as a full flight, where Southwest it's like 2 lines of people. File in and you're off.

MichMaybenot t1_j213g00 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 10:07 PM

To be fair, the honor flights take forever to board. If that's your single experience with a Southwest flight I could understand having a grumpy perspective.