The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?
I understand wanting to get off a plane ASAP, but boarding? You just end up sitting on the plane, waiting for everyone else to get on.
Do you have anywhere to be instead?
On bench I guess
Well, you do it. Other people is not so afraid of a little “exercise”
Why does it seem like everyone in the comment section takes flights all the time? For me, flying on an airplane is for vacations abroad only, and I maybe get 2 flights a year at most. I assume this is one of those US things I’m too Asian to understand.
I live in the US and I consider it unusual to fly more than once every two years.
It really depend on your job.
I know contractors that fly all over the place to get to different jobs and such.
I was flying 4-5 times a year when I worked remotely for a tech company. First few times was neat. I got over it fast. A bunch of cities/airports really suck and treat you like cattle.
lots of tech and business people use lemmy, we have to fly often.
Yep.
Used to fly all the time for work.
After that, flying with my wife and kids, or standing in TSA line with the normies who don’t know what to do gets incredibly frustrating.
I remember getting stuck behind one Karen who was pissed off she had to toss out a giant bottle of hair conditioner, in like 2017. Like, lady, yeah, it’s dumb, but the 311 rule isn’t new. Get over yourself.
We don’t have cool trains like you do in many parts of Asia.
And the Asian countries that don’t have trains are probably small enough that you still don’t really need to fly to get from one side to the other.
Are you under the impression that the US has a bunch of trains that we use constantly? Because we dont.
I dont I just chill. Those goobers will fuck something up and I’ll stand there for like 30 min like a moron.
Because you do not have assigned overhead bag storage, and people bring either bags that are too big, or bring multiple bags
Exactly. The airlines created this situation when they began charging for check-in bags
Not all airlines assign seats. I know Southwest doesn’t, you just find an empty seat once you board. In that case it makes sense to stand in line.
Absolutely.
Southwest assigns you a position in line. You can pay for a better one. Their passengers don’t spend a lot of time waiting in ad-hoc lines before their group is called like other airlines.
But your position in line is assigned. When they ask the A group to line up and the Bs start hovering they’re not accomplishing anything.
People’s mentality after waiting at the airport for six hours for a six hour flight …
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People are posting a lot of maybe more rational reasons, but I think there’s another answer that’s more in line with just being a human. Airports suck, air travel, generally, sucks and the whole process is riddle with both intentional and also just unavoidable misery. Every time a new step in the sequence of unpleasant and boring steps that is air travel nears, we start to anticipate it and get anxious to move on to that next step in the process. It doesn’t make it faster, it likely only makes the misery arguably worse, but some times people just can’t help trying to mentally hasten things even if in reality nothing is hastened at all.
I’m about to sit down for the next six hours. I’m happy to stand for a bit.
I saw in a flight that the airline mistakenly sold the same seat twice, two persons were fighting for the same seat, and when the stewardess came to review, she saw the error, the flight was oversold and the second man needed to leave the plane.
They don’t do that mistakenly. They just realized most of the time a few passengers don’t show up so overselling makes sense to keep the plane full.
If that happens to you in the EU, you are entitled to compensation, regardless of what the airline says. Know your rights!
I remember a scandal in Germany some years back, where it was reported that people on the airline call centres were instructed to wrongly tell customers that they weren’t entitled to compensation, and to only pay out when they where under threat of being sued. Dunno whether that improved.
I think it’s the same in america. But yeah, the airlines will of course try to wriggle out of this
This happened to me once, on a flight from JFK to Columbus OH. I was pissed because I had traveled the last 22 hours to get out of southern France back to the states, and then got kicked from my final little flight home. They gave me $200 to their airline (Delta) that had an expiration date, and a room at DoubleTree to take me back to the airport next day.
I couldn’t afford another trip after that so they canceled my $200 coupon after a year. So, yeah, you get compensated, I guess
You were scammed. You were owed cash.
Yes, the rule for involuntary bumping is:
1-2hr delay: 2x ticket price up to $775
2+hr delay: 4x ticket price up to $1550
It must be paid out at the airport, or within 24hr at the latest.
They are required to give you a written statement of your rights, though in my experience they usually “forget” and you have to go and assert your rights.
Airlines are well aware of these rules, and unfortunately there is no compensation if they involuntarily bump you onto an earlier flight, so I’ve had to take some flights before at the asscrack of dawn due to bumping.
How do they bump you to an earlier flight? You turn up for the flight you have a ticket for and they tell you your plane left 2 hours ago?
This is in the US? I had a few friends get fucked with last moment cancellations for my birthday trip to Vegas and the airlines didn’t do shit. One, Frontier, had to be strong armed to get them on another flight and still charged them the premium for the new flight.
Same when the plane lands. You must be the first to unclip and stand. He who stands longest wins.
Standing is superior to sitting unless you are disabled or unhealthy
Naaah, leaving the plane should be in order of the seats. Not “I stood up first”. Now you have to play the game of:
- Push your way into the standing line
- Let one standing person through, but then the whole line just keeps going cos they’re in a rush to stand in another line at the airport
I was being sarcastic, in case it wasn’t clear.
That for me is a stretching thing. I don’t care if I’m back of the plane, I’m standing up as soon as we’re allowed.
Every time, a good 75% of people stand up before it’s allowed and it annoys me every time.
You’re allowed to get up during the flight though
Oh, well in that case I’ll just stand during the flight, and remain seated when we land so other people who care too much about what strangers are doing feel more comfortable.
Mate I’m not telling you off for wanting to stretch, just puzzled about why you don’t do it earlier on when you start feeling cramped
Because him standing early so he thinks he can get off the plane earlier good, standig during flight bad because logic
I’m on a Boeing plane. I’ll stay buckled and seated, thanks.
People are dumb. Mostly.
Depends on what airline you’re taking, Southwest doesn’t assign seats
Unless you need/like to stand before takeoff, I don’t see the point. I don’t mind if people do, as long as they are polite.
Bag space woes? It’s real, but seriously see what you can do without. I fly for work at least once a month and I’m a pro one bagger for trips of 4 days or less; more if I’m doing summer weight clothes. It means I rewear things if they are clean and sometimes wash clothes in my hotel, but damn does it make travel easy.
Checked bag fees suck. Be the first to volunteer to gate check. I can only recall one flight in the last few months where an announcement wasn’t made. The bag is waiting at the destination gate so you don’t even have to handle bag claim. I do it every time I travel.
Two reasons:
I always take window seats, and don’t really want to hop over someone to get to my seat.
And it also means I don’t have to fight for overhead space for my carry-on.
This is the reason.
No, that is the solution. The reason is that airlines intentionally plan with too little overhead space to save money.
How does that save money? It’s not like they have to leave their bags behind if the overhead space is gone. It just gets checked instead.
I don’t know about saving money, but around here airlines have been creeping up checked bag fees for years. You used to get one free checked bag but when they started charging for all checked bags people started trying to fit thier entire vacation worth of stuff into carry-on. The bags I see people trying to fit into the overhead now are huge and just barely fit in the compartment on smaller planes. The airlines know what’s up though since they’ll charge for checked bags but then announce repeatedly before the flight that they’re looking for volunteers to check their carry-on to its final destination for free. I actually saw one airline enforce the carry-on sizing device as people were boarding and forced any oversize bags to be checked. A lot of unhappy people that day.
I’ve never been charged to check my bag at the gate.
Stand, don’t stand, I don’t care. But I’m sitting in the marked disabled seats, with a gate checked walker, and only similarly disabled people or people wrangling little kids are getting on before me, so standing in front of me only tempts me to run into the back of your legs with my walker to bulldoze you out of my way. Leave those of us with extra trouble moving a little space, please!
In general, people should mind their surroundings and those around them just a little bit. So many people find it OK to just stand talking in front of doors, stairs, even escalators.
no doubt. major pet peeve of mine, people enter a building (IE store) and just STOP blocking the entrance. I get you need to get you bearings but step out of the wat to do it!
