inkkognito
<font color=green>I shall call him Mini-Me<br><fon
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This is a bit different than the recently asked question about having others in your party join you in the A line (i.e. everyone has A passes, but one or two people hold the place and the others return before boarding). I have no problem with that, and I've never noticed anyone else who does...it seems to be standard operating procedure.
But what if someone else has a B or a C and wants to join A and there is no compelling reason? I'll explain the situation:
There was one person in front of me in the A line at MDW. A while later, another man joined him (also with an A pass). Later, as a B line formed, they realized that they knew the second person in the B line (seemed to be there for a convention or something). Immediately one of the A guys kept saying, "You just come into the A line when we start going. You're with us...that gives you the right." He even went and asked the gate agent if it was okay and said she told him "yes" (I didn't ovehear the conversation, so I don't know if that was true). Normally I could care less about one person, but I had my designs on the exit row, and I already knew that's where they were heading (they were the sort who talked loud enough so that people three gates over probably could hear 'em too).
When boarding started, the first person in the B line was in a position that would have made it hard for Mr. B2 to go past him (maybe he didn't like the idea of a B cutting the A), so B2 didn't even try, even tho' A1 was kicking up a bit of a fuss. A1 sat in the exit row window, A2 sat in the aisle seat behind the exit row, and I sat in the exit row aisle. I suspect A2 didn't take the exit because he was mega-pooh-sized and probably didn't want to call attention to that...he was truly of the size that took up two seats. A2 mumbled about how unhappy B2 two was going to be (tough luck!).
A1 put all his stuff on the middle seat, perhaps thinking B2 could sit there. But saving exits is definitely bad etiquette (believe me, if he'd tried to save that aisle, my butt would have plunked down on his suitcase if it had to!), so another A boarder ended up making him move his stuff and taking it. I have no clue where B2 ended up.
So what it boils down to is, is it bad form for a B to join people in A? I don't mean a family with kids where there is a compelling reason to board/sit together...I mean people like this group who seemed to think they should be entitled "just because." I'm interested in my fellow SW flyers' opinions.
But what if someone else has a B or a C and wants to join A and there is no compelling reason? I'll explain the situation:
There was one person in front of me in the A line at MDW. A while later, another man joined him (also with an A pass). Later, as a B line formed, they realized that they knew the second person in the B line (seemed to be there for a convention or something). Immediately one of the A guys kept saying, "You just come into the A line when we start going. You're with us...that gives you the right." He even went and asked the gate agent if it was okay and said she told him "yes" (I didn't ovehear the conversation, so I don't know if that was true). Normally I could care less about one person, but I had my designs on the exit row, and I already knew that's where they were heading (they were the sort who talked loud enough so that people three gates over probably could hear 'em too).
When boarding started, the first person in the B line was in a position that would have made it hard for Mr. B2 to go past him (maybe he didn't like the idea of a B cutting the A), so B2 didn't even try, even tho' A1 was kicking up a bit of a fuss. A1 sat in the exit row window, A2 sat in the aisle seat behind the exit row, and I sat in the exit row aisle. I suspect A2 didn't take the exit because he was mega-pooh-sized and probably didn't want to call attention to that...he was truly of the size that took up two seats. A2 mumbled about how unhappy B2 two was going to be (tough luck!).
A1 put all his stuff on the middle seat, perhaps thinking B2 could sit there. But saving exits is definitely bad etiquette (believe me, if he'd tried to save that aisle, my butt would have plunked down on his suitcase if it had to!), so another A boarder ended up making him move his stuff and taking it. I have no clue where B2 ended up.
So what it boils down to is, is it bad form for a B to join people in A? I don't mean a family with kids where there is a compelling reason to board/sit together...I mean people like this group who seemed to think they should be entitled "just because." I'm interested in my fellow SW flyers' opinions.
