The new airlines like Easyjet and Ryanair don't give you a seat? Why ? and yesterday they wrote my name on the boarding card by hand. Do they save money not using the airport computer system, or do they reckon it is easier and faster?
2006-09-21 08:39:35 · 3 answers · asked by Philp Swallow 2 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
The "free for all" system actually allows the plane to be boarded more quickly than assigned seating. I get stuck in airplane boarding traffic jams all the time, where someone clogs up the aisle, and if you get enough people doing that, it adds another 10 minutes to the boarding process. Even worse is when seats have been assigned and people decide they want to rearrange the whole cabin just so their last-minute-booking friends can all sit together. What a mess! 10 minutes may not seem like a lot but the low-cost airlines can only make money by minimizing at-the-gate time and running as many flights as possible off of that one plane. They want to get it up in the air as fast as possible. Shaving 10 minutes off of each flight's at-the-gate time lets them squeeze in one more daily run which equals more money for them. And writing the names by hand means no reliance on printers or other things that could break (or at the least, run out of paper and ink). If everyone had to wait to get their boarding cards till there was more paper in the printer, the flight might be late and that goes back to the money thing!
2006-09-21 08:54:07 · answer #1 · answered by dcgirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jetstar does that in Australia. They give out 3 types of bording passes.
Orange for elderly and people with children (0-16) or pay the flexible fare
Blue for people that check in early
Silver for the rest
Their excuse is that it saves time and reduces costing so it keeps the fares low. THAT IS A LOAD OF CRAP!!!!!
Jetstar has been pressured to introduce a seat allocation and they will in mid october (12th???)
They will also introduce on the web that you can pick your seat is as you are paying on line or you get any seat by letting Jetstar decide when you check in
Its not easyer, it would take the same time so what ever the airlines told you is CRAP!!!!
2006-09-21 16:46:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the record, Jetstar will be introducing "assigned seating" from November and will no longer have free for all seating.
2006-09-25 06:47:48 · answer #3 · answered by bugboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋