Oh, I agree with you strongly on this! I also never check bags (for both cost and efficiency reasons) and yeah, not going to check my bags if I don't have to.
I also have read that the boarding method by sections is super inefficient and that airlines ought to board by seat position (further from door window seats, closer to door window seats, further from door middle seats, etc.) but people get mad if they don't board with the rest of their party or by the priority they imagine they have.
When I got shut down like you did (trying to come home) I was lucky enough that it was at the major airport that feeds my smaller airport, only a 6 hour drive, and I found other people going to my town to split a rental SUV with. Otherwise it would have been three days!
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I also have read that the boarding method by sections is super inefficient and that airlines ought to board by seat position (further from door window seats, closer to door window seats, further from door middle seats, etc.) but people get mad if they don't board with the rest of their party or by the priority they imagine they have.
When I got shut down like you did (trying to come home) I was lucky enough that it was at the major airport that feeds my smaller airport, only a 6 hour drive, and I found other people going to my town to split a rental SUV with. Otherwise it would have been three days!