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Why stand in line to board an airplane? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by OhmsLawn@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?

I understand wanting to get off a plane ASAP, but boarding? You just end up sitting on the plane, waiting for everyone else to get on.

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[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually kind of dislike the assigned seating at movie theaters myself. It now doesn't matter if i go early, the theater might already be nearly booked. The only way around this is to either make two trips to the theater or pay extra to buy online.

On the other hand, it does eliminate any rush to get there early once you have the ticket

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I actually kind of dislike the assigned seating at movie theaters myself. It now doesn’t matter if i go early, the theater might already be nearly booked. The only way around this is to either make two trips to the theater or pay extra to buy online.

I'm kind of confused why you don't just call or check their website from home and reserve the seating, versus going down there in the first place?

If they're full you've saved yourself a trip going down there to reserve seating, when you can do it from home online or via the phone. And I've never had a situation where I've had to pay extra for the seats, doing it over the phone or online.

On the other hand, it does eliminate any rush to get there early once you have the ticket

Yep, makes it really stress-free. You just walk in there and walk through the front door and just sit down in your seats.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, if they didn't charge extra I'd probably not be so annoyed, but the theaters around me all add like a $3 "convenience" fee for booking online, which is complete bs since it's actually saving them money not needing to keep as many people working

Capitalists will capitalist, though

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, extra fees to do that would suck like a vacuum cleaner set to high. Try letting the manager of the theater know that its b.s. to do that, you never know.

I actually got my local theater (long time ago) to stop having commercials shown after the lights go down, by talking to him (I'm not paying to watch commercials argument, basically).