We don’t get first off. We get first on. We get off with our row. If we needed first off for some reason and it was considered a reasonable accommodation we would use it. It’s very strange that you think it should be someone’s job to keep disabled people sitting on a plane, especially on Southwest where it’s worse for everyone. Have you considered flying business class on an airline that assigns seats? You’ll get on first and off first. |
| I'm sick of flying because the utter selfishness of humanity today makes it awful. |
I don't think you fly very much. They do make wheelchair users wait until everyone is off. Also unaccompanied minors. Strange that you think this logical safety measure doesn't happen. This is when the fakers get up and walk off, because they don't actually need to wait for that wheelchair and want FIFO. |
Wheelchair users are not all disabled people who preboard. If you’ve read about people being abandoned on planes without their wheelchairs coming for them, I’m not surprised some people who board in wheelchairs do not wait for them on the way out. It’s still wholly unnecessary to have all pre-boarders wait to the end. |
Nobody said preboarders have to wait. That would include families with young kids, business select, veterans and plenty of able bodied people. But the people who require extra time, like wheelchair users, do have to wait for reasons that make a lot of sense. And you don't know if your wheelchair is there or not until you're on the jetbridge. You don't seem to understand how any of this works, frankly. When was the last time you even flew? |
This is the person who said all preorders for disabilities need to get off last. Take it up with her. |
This is not remotely true, and because every business interprets reasonable differently and has different (or no) requirements for documentation, there are many many many fakers out there. The fact that you think you need some sort of paperwork to preboard on Southwest (or any airline) makes me think you don't even fly. |
The fakers are the people with the wheelchairs. That's been consistent throughout this thread. What else is anyone "faking" that isn't obvious? |
There are tons of fakers not in wheelchairs. You don't need a wheelchair to preboard. I'm not going to give you a step by step manual how to fake it. (DP) However, the ADA does not define what a "reasonable accomodation" is. That is left up to the businesses. And if SW decides that preboarders can't sit in the bulkheads, or the first five rows or whatever, that is fine. If PP doesn't like it, it doesn't matter. |
It's probably the same Disney disability scammers who have no qualms about lying about a "disability" to get an unearned privilege. It's not a way I would choose to live my life, we can just feel sorry for those people since their lives are just that small and pathetic and this is the one chance they get to feel important. |
The probably with the Disney folks, and with preboard angry Mom on this thread is that they get SO used to getting not just reasonable accommodations, but often premium accommodations for free, that when a business determines the premium accommodation is unsustainable to their business and they need to dial it back to something more reasonable, they lose their entitled minds. The courts have already sided with Disney that accommodations do not have to be the best possible nor do they have to offer something detrimental to their business model. |
You nailed it. |
That doesn’t mean you can board early and save seats for others. The designated parent who is entitled to sit with their kids should get the upgrade and board *with* the kids. Then the other parent will just get whatever seat they can if they don’t upgrade. Or you should fly a regular airline if you all really want to sit together. |
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I flew this week.
Coming home last night from Vegas (Big Volleyball tournament), star volleyball player (and dad) boarded early due to "disabilty" - she looked fine standing there for 30 minutes as the flight was delayed boarding. They saved an entire row - 6 seats. When someone asked to sit in the window seat - the dad said that someone was sitting there. The person he saved the seat for was boarding position C17. How do I know? I was sitting behind them and overheard the conversations. |
Yes, I agree that this happens. The problem is that nothing this family did is against ANY rule that Southwest has. |