Airline herd mentality
I’m sitting here at Newark and my plane departs in 20 minutes. The moment they announced boarding everybody rushes to the front as though they are giving away money inside the plane.
This is a 7 hour flight to Vancouver. What is the hurry to get seated? I understand if you have a huge carry-on that you need to get in the overhead, or even if you’re flying first class because you want to chug your first free drink as quickly as possible… but given that coach class is essentially as comfortable as standing in a New York subway during rushhour, why would people possibly want to spend an extra 20 minutes on the aircraft if they don’t absolutely have to?
Herd mentality at it’s best “everybody is in line, I better get in line too, I better hurry!”.
Ok… now they are making final call and me and 3 other smart passengers are walking up to the gate with no line and will spend 20 minutes of our lives doing something more fun like blogging or watching the news.
See you in Canada eh!