Comments on: Flying with a wheelchair – not in Second Life http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/11/22/flying-with-a-wheelchair-not-in-second-life/ the blog of david n wallace Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:09:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Downes http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/11/22/flying-with-a-wheelchair-not-in-second-life/comment-page-1/#comment-39701 Stephen Downes Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:50:54 +0000 http://dnwallace.com/blog/2007/11/22/flying-with-a-wheelchair-not-in-second-life/#comment-39701 > Why don’t they board passengers according to the position of their seats ACROSS the plane? I think they are starting to do this in the U.S. There, instead of seating by row number, they seat by 'zone' - zone 1, zone 2, etc. and each person has their zone number on their boarding pass. So people with window seats get lower zone numbers (lower zone numbers board first). Of course, it's not just arranged according to comfort. Since there's always too little baggage space in the cabin, it is an advantage t board early and stash your carry-on baggage first. So frequent flyers get low zone numbers as well. > Why don’t they board passengers according to the position of their seats ACROSS the plane?

I think they are starting to do this in the U.S. There, instead of seating by row number, they seat by ‘zone’ – zone 1, zone 2, etc. and each person has their zone number on their boarding pass. So people with window seats get lower zone numbers (lower zone numbers board first).

Of course, it’s not just arranged according to comfort. Since there’s always too little baggage space in the cabin, it is an advantage t board early and stash your carry-on baggage first. So frequent flyers get low zone numbers as well.

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