Flying Scrum
Charlotte:
December 20th, 2006
I just can’t work out why budget airlines don’t have designated seating on flights. Surely it cannot cost more to allocate a seat on check-in even if passengers check in online or to print a boarding pass with a seat number. Instead you have a scrum at the boarding gate with people trying to elbow others out the way and when you get on the plane it’s even worse. It would be far more sensible to make people fill up the rows from the back working forwards but instead you have people wanting to sit near the front and blocking the aisles as they try to heave their bags into the overhead lockers as other passengers try to squeeze past to find a seat. Having said all that I shouldn’t complain. I flew to Spain two weeks ago for little more than I had paid the week before to go by train to Leeds!