Don't respect your area at boarding? Now you will be pilloried in front of all the passengers
It will surprise you, I am sure, but jumping the line at flight boarding is not just an Italian custom. Of course, if [...]
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It will amaze you, I am sure, but Jumping the line at flight boarding is not just an Italian custom.
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Of course, if it were an Olympic discipline we Italians could aspire to the first place: however, it is good to specify that we would not be the only ones; after all, as they say, all the world is a country.
E ITA passengers, who recently adopted this model. are figuring it out, and judging from what I saw in Fiumicino, it hasn't been metabolized yet.
In the United States (but not only) boarding is done by zones: the intent, easily guessed, is to avoid the formation of kilometer-long lines and, above all, to manage more smoothly - and possibly faster - boarding procedures. Needless to say, there is always the smart guy who tries to jump the queue and board along with those who have the priority boarding.
Here, American Airlines decided to crack down on this: in a nutshell, whenever a passenger scans their boarding pass at the gate before it is their turn, a buzzer will alert airport officials to the presence of a 'smarty-pants' (who will, then, be politely requested to sit back down and wait their turn).
The system, still in experimental phase, has a presence at three U.S. airports: at Albuquerque's International Sunport, Tucson International Airport, and at the "Ronald Reagan" of Washington.
Is this technology proving useful? It may be too early to tell, but American Airlines, according to NBC News reports, has been pleased with the results so far.
