Yeah, I thought about that after I sent it. Even after announcements that they'll be calling by row numbers from back to front, the front of the crowd is always full of people whose rows will be called last and they block the rows of people being called first. But those are just the people who are incredibly dumb or incredibly rude - the majority don't do it. Jose Prize In a message dated 3/11/2004 8:15:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx writes: > Subj: Re: Southwest Advice > Date: 3/11/2004 8:15:15 PM Eastern Standard Time > From: dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx > Reply-to: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Sent from the Internet > > B787300@xxxxxxx wrote: > >Granted, on Southwest people generally stand in the group lines > >longer so they can board earlier, but you surely don't have to, and > >on assigned seat flights people usually stay seated until just before > >their row numbers are called. > > Wow, I want to try your flights sometime. On many of the assigned-seat > flights I'm on, there are usually at least a few people who try to board > early. > > -- > David Mueller / MRY > dmueller7@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.quanterium.com >