Gate lice’ beware: American Airlines is catching early boarders

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Anonymous wrote:I push and run over gate lice. You are group 4 and 5. GTFO of the way standing around the gate. You aren't going to get on faster and are blocking the way for everyone in groups 1-4. MOVE or you will be run over.

Seems like a bad move to physically accost someone likely larger than you and likely already agitated, but you do you

Nope. 6'4" and 276 lbs. If you want to throw down, i'll easily oblige.

This is terrible! You will just run over children and smaller people because you’re pissed at them? I think if you actually physically assaulted someone you would be denied boarding. This is just armchair fantasizing.

If they're in my way? Absolutely. Keep your spawn out of the way.

Oh please. The moment you laid a hand on a child there would be a ravening crowd of women ready to tear you limb from limb. I don’t even have kids and I would straight up testify that you assaulted the kid.

But this is all just your Big Man fantasy. You’re a pigeon-chested, knuckle-dragging mouth breather who lives in his mama’s basement and hasn’t been any further than Aunt Linda’s in Akron. Any decent large strong man doesn’t use his physicality to intimidate women and children.

I'm a 5'2" woman and will still run over your kid if it's in the way.

+1

If you can’t control your child, check it.

[Anonymous]

I check my bags and find anyone that maxes out carryons obnoxious. Especially if it’s on wheels.

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I have never tried to jump the boarding groups but I am sometimes guilty of gate-lice-ing because I can’t hear/understand the announcements. It doesn’t seem like it would be that hard to add it to the app.

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Anonymous wrote:I push and run over gate lice. You are group 4 and 5. GTFO of the way standing around the gate. You aren't going to get on faster and are blocking the way for everyone in groups 1-4. MOVE or you will be run over.

Seems like a bad move to physically accost someone likely larger than you and likely already agitated, but you do you

Nope. 6'4" and 276 lbs. If you want to throw down, i'll easily oblige.

This is terrible! You will just run over children and smaller people because you’re pissed at them? I think if you actually physically assaulted someone you would be denied boarding. This is just armchair fantasizing.

If they're in my way? Absolutely. Keep your spawn out of the way.

Oh please. The moment you laid a hand on a child there would be a ravening crowd of women ready to tear you limb from limb. I don’t even have kids and I would straight up testify that you assaulted the kid.

But this is all just your Big Man fantasy. You’re a pigeon-chested, knuckle-dragging mouth breather who lives in his mama’s basement and hasn’t been any further than Aunt Linda’s in Akron. Any decent large strong man doesn’t use his physicality to intimidate women and children.

I'm a 5'2" woman and will still run over your kid if it's in the way.

+1

If you can’t control your child, check it.

K.

But there’s a corollary rule: If you can’t reach the overhead bin or can’t lift your own bag, no carry on bags.

Sorry, midgets and weaklings.

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Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

All the more reason they should hustle to get the flight boarded and get in the air.

DP.

Snort.

Will that make them any MORE $$$?

No.

Why on earth would an FA do that?

They take an unbelievable amount of crap from rude and clueless passengers. I'm routinely astonished at how polite and helpful most of them are given customer behavior.

I have flown extensively, domestically and internationally, and I 100% have seen and partaken in a lot more passengers-helping-passengers, passengers-being-great, than I have seen and experienced flight attendants helping. When an obviously pregnant woman gets an eye-roll, when an elderly woman is flat-out refused help, there is simply no excuse. None.

You realize that not only are they not being paid during boarding, but they aren't covered by insurance -- not workman's comp if they pull a shoulder, not liability insurance if a bag they are lifting breaks a handle and falls on someone? None of it.

This is the reason they don’t help.

Nah. The reason is because they don’t have to. So they don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

Is this true?!

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Anonymous wrote:Until we get rid of the crazy carryon wheeled suitcase epidemic, we will never be able to board the plane back to front. That was a relic from back when many more people checked bags and overhead space was not at a premium.

People have learned that they can pack light and not risk airlines losing luggage and not have to wait for an hour by the carousel. Charging for bags created it, but now that people see how convenient it is, you'd have to actually incentives checked bags rather than just make it free again

The incentive for checking bags is not having to drag your suitcase all over the airport or fight over overhead space.

The majority of travelers are not in enough of a hurry that waiting at baggage for 15-20 minutes is that big of a deal. You aren't a head of state or CEO.

Airports and airlines have gotten way better about lost luggage in recent years. Technology does a lot to address this. But you can also help avoid human error by just supervising them tagging your bag and making sure the destination and name on the bag are correct before checking it. Also getting to the airport on time and checking in on time. If you do all this the odds of your bag being lost are actually quite low.*

*Excepting certain budget airlines here -- I don't fly airlines like Spirit that cut tons of corners and screw over customers but I also don't care if people carry onto those planes because I will never be one. I don't care what Spirit passengers do.

Not your call to make. I get to decide. And I’ve dealt with waits for my luggage WAY longer than “15-20 minutes” especially in locations like Florida which can have extensive lightning delays.

DP.

You're going to wait one way or another.

Wait on the plane for everyone to stow their wheeled carryons (slows boarding/takeoff dramatically), then wait for the process to reverse on landing.

Or wait at the luggage carousel.

Me, I'd rather wait in the airport. Ban the effing carryons.

Right but you are waiting twice and I’m not.

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Anonymous wrote:I am on a flight now and the instructions printed inside the overhead bins are crystal clear - if you have a rolling suitcase, turn it on its side and put it in wheels first. Yet people are laying them flat, horizontally, thereby taking up the space that could be used for three bags. Amazing. I wish the flight attendant would be able to ask people to set their bags in correctly but that would take even more time during boarding.

Remember that the flight attendants aren't even being paid during boarding.

Is this true?!

This is like saying teachers aren’t paid during the summer. They are all paid what they are paid to do their job. You can divide out the hours however you like.

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Call me crazy. Charge a hefty fee for carryon and no fee to check. We could all board faster, deplane faster, and there would be fewer folks jockeying for overhead space.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me crazy. Charge a hefty fee for carryon and no fee to check. We could all board faster, deplane faster, and there would be fewer folks jockeying for overhead space.

I’m for this. In a hot second.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me crazy. Charge a hefty fee for carryon and no fee to check. We could all board faster, deplane faster, and there would be fewer folks jockeying for overhead space.

This exactly. It’s not rocket science.

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Anonymous wrote:Call me crazy. Charge a hefty fee for carryon and no fee to check. We could all board faster, deplane faster, and there would be fewer folks jockeying for overhead space.

I’m for this. In a hot second.

But check in would be busier.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Until we get rid of the crazy carryon wheeled suitcase epidemic, we will never be able to board the plane back to front. That was a relic from back when many more people checked bags and overhead space was not at a premium.

People have learned that they can pack light and not risk airlines losing luggage and not have to wait for an hour by the carousel. Charging for bags created it, but now that people see how convenient it is, you'd have to actually incentives checked bags rather than just make it free again

The incentive for checking bags is not having to drag your suitcase all over the airport or fight over overhead space.

The majority of travelers are not in enough of a hurry that waiting at baggage for 15-20 minutes is that big of a deal. You aren't a head of state or CEO.

Airports and airlines have gotten way better about lost luggage in recent years. Technology does a lot to address this. But you can also help avoid human error by just supervising them tagging your bag and making sure the destination and name on the bag are correct before checking it. Also getting to the airport on time and checking in on time. If you do all this the odds of your bag being lost are actually quite low.*

*Excepting certain budget airlines here -- I don't fly airlines like Spirit that cut tons of corners and screw over customers but I also don't care if people carry onto those planes because I will never be one. I don't care what Spirit passengers do.

Not your call to make. I get to decide. And I’ve dealt with waits for my luggage WAY longer than “15-20 minutes” especially in locations like Florida which can have extensive lightning delays.

DP.

You're going to wait one way or another.

Wait on the plane for everyone to stow their wheeled carryons (slows boarding/takeoff dramatically), then wait for the process to reverse on landing.

Or wait at the luggage carousel.

Me, I'd rather wait in the airport. Ban the effing carryons.

Right but you are waiting twice and I’m not.

You’re waiting at least 4 times.

Board, deplane. Repeat on return.

Add 2 waits for every connection.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Until we get rid of the crazy carryon wheeled suitcase epidemic, we will never be able to board the plane back to front. That was a relic from back when many more people checked bags and overhead space was not at a premium.

People have learned that they can pack light and not risk airlines losing luggage and not have to wait for an hour by the carousel. Charging for bags created it, but now that people see how convenient it is, you'd have to actually incentives checked bags rather than just make it free again

The incentive for checking bags is not having to drag your suitcase all over the airport or fight over overhead space.

The majority of travelers are not in enough of a hurry that waiting at baggage for 15-20 minutes is that big of a deal. You aren't a head of state or CEO.

Airports and airlines have gotten way better about lost luggage in recent years. Technology does a lot to address this. But you can also help avoid human error by just supervising them tagging your bag and making sure the destination and name on the bag are correct before checking it. Also getting to the airport on time and checking in on time. If you do all this the odds of your bag being lost are actually quite low.*

*Excepting certain budget airlines here -- I don't fly airlines like Spirit that cut tons of corners and screw over customers but I also don't care if people carry onto those planes because I will never be one. I don't care what Spirit passengers do.

Not your call to make. I get to decide. And I’ve dealt with waits for my luggage WAY longer than “15-20 minutes” especially in locations like Florida which can have extensive lightning delays.

DP.

You're going to wait one way or another.

Wait on the plane for everyone to stow their wheeled carryons (slows boarding/takeoff dramatically), then wait for the process to reverse on landing.

Or wait at the luggage carousel.

Me, I'd rather wait in the airport. Ban the effing carryons.

Right but you are waiting twice and I’m not.

Can sometimes be more than twice. You can wait at the carousel for the bag that never comes because it actually went somewhere else. Then you can wait some more in the little office to speak with someone to report your missing bag. Then you will wait some more to hear where your bag is and when it will get to you. If you’re not at your final destination you may have to waste more time getting some essentials until your bag arrives. I’d rather just wait the a few extra minutes in boarding and exiting for people to grab their bags because a lost bag is a nightmare.

[Anonymous]

The most heinous are those people who board and immediately put their suitcase in the front overheads, even though there’s room in the back. And then they walk back 20 rows to their own seat. It seriously makes me rage as it’s the ultimate a-hole move. I wish they marked overheads for each seat.