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Too slow PAXboy! (Showing your age?!)
Best for me was in NBO trying to board a Kenya Airways flight to ADD; it seemed that about 10 flights were boarding simultaneously, with everyone milling around in the same general area, and heading onto the tarmac and to various planes dotted around the place. I am not sure that the ground staff knew where everyone was supposed to go, let alone the pax, so I was very grateful when my boarding card was checked (and I had somehow managed to make the right plane).
GDI
Best for me was in NBO trying to board a Kenya Airways flight to ADD; it seemed that about 10 flights were boarding simultaneously, with everyone milling around in the same general area, and heading onto the tarmac and to various planes dotted around the place. I am not sure that the ground staff knew where everyone was supposed to go, let alone the pax, so I was very grateful when my boarding card was checked (and I had somehow managed to make the right plane).
GDI
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goshdarnit 
How dare you be so close to the truth. The day approaches when I may have to be PAXoldboy.
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
How dare you be so close to the truth. The day approaches when I may have to be PAXoldboy.
"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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I always thought it was to do with when you ploughed into the ground, the AAIB could see how far you had been flung from the aircraft, or identify your charred corpse?
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As SLF, my biggest peeve is when someone just decides to take a seat next to the person they're travelling with, and expecting every one else to work around it.
I was returning home from Mexico this year, securely seated in my exit row seat. Two women boarded travelling together, but not seated together. One was in a C seat and the other in the E seat two rows back (on a 737). Chick in C decides to take D next to her friend (in the exit row). On comes party of 4, seated DEF in the row between, and in D where woman has decided to sit with her friend. Chaos ensues as pax from C is trying to reseat everyone so that she can sit next to her friend. Nobody thought to call in the flight attendant. I nearly did.
Pax who reassign themselves (particularly to an exit row seat) and then tell passengers where to sit should be taken to the rear galley exit, shot and their bodies left on the tarmac as a warning to others.
(how's that for a friendly post #100?)
I was returning home from Mexico this year, securely seated in my exit row seat. Two women boarded travelling together, but not seated together. One was in a C seat and the other in the E seat two rows back (on a 737). Chick in C decides to take D next to her friend (in the exit row). On comes party of 4, seated DEF in the row between, and in D where woman has decided to sit with her friend. Chaos ensues as pax from C is trying to reseat everyone so that she can sit next to her friend. Nobody thought to call in the flight attendant. I nearly did.
Pax who reassign themselves (particularly to an exit row seat) and then tell passengers where to sit should be taken to the rear galley exit, shot and their bodies left on the tarmac as a warning to others.
(how's that for a friendly post #100?)
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Originally Posted by el !
Generally I use the post-takeoff tecnique in presence of Nazi Cabin Crew, how do you recognise such crews is easy, they are the ones that demand to see your boarding pass and not just naming your seat as your board. Those who don't are generally more cooperative and understanding.
Some people eh
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I'm glad they check the boarding passes at the door and gate, I can't say I'd be too happy if it were possible for just anybody to wander onto the aircraft I was travelling on...
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Lol see i read the original 'nazi post' to mean those crews that demand to see your boarding card when seated to check you are in fact allocated to that seat or if you've done a cheeky move. I could be wrong!!
And i've flown for many a year and didn't find it offensive!
But back to the original topic - i think it's courtesy to wait til the doors are closed - namely as it causes a nightmare on the ground, especially if you're trying to sit a family together and the seats you think you have free have bodies in them
So long as it doesn't effect weight and balance, which after take off it shouldn't, you can sit where you like on my aircraft!!
And i've flown for many a year and didn't find it offensive!
But back to the original topic - i think it's courtesy to wait til the doors are closed - namely as it causes a nightmare on the ground, especially if you're trying to sit a family together and the seats you think you have free have bodies in them
So long as it doesn't effect weight and balance, which after take off it shouldn't, you can sit where you like on my aircraft!!
