Has anybody else encountered Qantas' latest attempt to address the symptoms while ignoring the causes of their ever and ever increasing flight delays?
Returning from Cairns a week or so ago, our connecting flight from Hobart was running about an hour late. That's actually not bad by Qantas current MEL-HBA standards. When eventually we came to board (by now 75 minutes late) we were told that to "save time" instead of normal priority boarding (which is often not implemented anyway), we would be boarding by row number, starting at the back.
Whether or not this did reduce boarding time I doubt, but if it did it just meant that pax had more opportunity to wiggle their bums on their seats for longer while we waited first for the bags to be loaded and then for the catering, eventually getting away some 90 minutes late.
Back in the old country we have a saying about straining at the gnat while swallowing the camel ...
Returning from Cairns a week or so ago, our connecting flight from Hobart was running about an hour late. That's actually not bad by Qantas current MEL-HBA standards. When eventually we came to board (by now 75 minutes late) we were told that to "save time" instead of normal priority boarding (which is often not implemented anyway), we would be boarding by row number, starting at the back.
Whether or not this did reduce boarding time I doubt, but if it did it just meant that pax had more opportunity to wiggle their bums on their seats for longer while we waited first for the bags to be loaded and then for the catering, eventually getting away some 90 minutes late.
Back in the old country we have a saying about straining at the gnat while swallowing the camel ...
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