Friday, April 10, 2009

Boarding Airplanes

In today's world, planes are boarded by "Zone." Typically I am assigned one of the last zones, and immediately start worrying if there will be enough room left for my carry on bags. About half of the time I end up having to check my bag due to lack of room. This pisses me off, and adds so much time to my trip. Inevitably, I stand at the baggage claim carousal, waiting and waiting and waiting for my bag to arrive. It always seems that it is the last to come off the plane. What happened to last on, first off???

Anyway, yesterday when I checked in I was assigned Zone 1. I was psyched. I actually get to the gate early, not wanting to miss my awesome boarding zone. Then the gate agent announces, "We will not be boarding by zone today. We will start boarding from the back of the plane, forward." Aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, I was Row 4.

I can't win.

1 comment:

  1. The one time I had a front row seat (plane was too small for business class) the flight was canceled. It's a conspiracy.

    ReplyDelete