re: People who fake a disability/injury to get priority boarding on an airplane

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This was a Southwest flight so no assigned seats so you can imagine what the frequent flyer guys were thinking when the 20 wheelchairs come up at once! And they were getting steamed cause now the A lineup is starting to start to rustle a bit too. I'm in B so I'm sitting watching all this take place with my wife (no pics) and we're trying to stay calm too because we're in seats facing the walk up aisle! Get this! Now the 3 guys are wrestling, the sammich woman is swinging at the stroller and then the rest of the wheelchair people all get up and start running for the gate! Running like healthy people that are mostly overweight, but light trotting you could say. All this effort to get on a plane first! What seemed like 3 minutes was probably 40 seconds, when finally a security team comes busting through the melee and chair sprawl and yells open the door get on the floor, everybody do the dinosaur.

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You get what you desearve for flying SW.

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I like being one of the last frickers to board.

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I get that, but I've gotten screwed before by not having any place near me for carry on.

Sitting on row 12, but having to place your carry on row 38 sucks

The answer is FOLO. First On Last Off. If you need extra time to get on the plane then you should need extra time to get off the plane. They should get off the plane last.

The number of early boarders would drop by 80%.

You get on early so you can get overhead storage. But more importantly so you can recline with your complimentary tarmac vodka tonic and high brow the mouth breathers in coach as they scurry past.

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If you fly very much, you should realize the trick is to be the last person to board and the first person to deplane.

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Decent plan unless you have carry-on bags for the overhead bin.....then off to the cargo hold your carry-on bag goes. Then you get the pleasure of waiting sometimes an extra 30 minutes at that damn luggage carousel for that same bag.

some people have issues with their legs that make it impossible to stand for extended periods of time yet can function and move around normally otherwise ya know.

i also would need a wheel chair to sit in and get around right up until the hours of waiting was over and i could just walk to get on the plane and in my seat.

but i also dont use handicap parking or take advantage of any disability perks because of it as "some" people go out of their way to do it seems so ya i see your point but you dont know what the guys true issue was or if he really had one

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I dont know why people want to be on the plane first anyway. I typically dont board when the call my section. I want until the very end then get on the plane. I want to spend less time in that small cramped space, not more time.

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I tavel a LOT and normally business class yet will damn near make them call me before walking on the plane.

I just have no need to spend 30 extra min siting in a cigar shaped fart tube.

In the airline industry that is known as "The Miracle of Flight".

Before the flight they were crippled, unable to walk; after the flight they can run a marathon.

Never understood why they don't board row by row, back to front. Everyone gets overhead bin space at your seat.