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Why stand in line to board an airplane? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by OhmsLawn@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?

I understand wanting to get off a plane ASAP, but boarding? You just end up sitting on the plane, waiting for everyone else to get on.

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[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Assigned seats mean you can hardly just ad hoc decide to see a movie nowadays. You basically have to plan it out. Used to be "hey let's see the showing at 6. Ok let's get there at 5:30 then." Now, you go look and people already took the best seats and shows up mid preview. Or people buying literally all the seats weeks ahead of time for blockbusters.

How fun.

I haven't seen any blockbuster on opening weekend in probably over a decade because I know the good seats are already purchased.

Also, the seating maps aren't great.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Assigned seats mean you can hardly just ad hoc decide to see a movie nowadays.

That's not true. You can still ad hoc it.

At the time you want to go to the theater you just go, and when you buy your tickets you choose from whatever seats are available.

I don't see how that's any different than if you just walked up to the theater and bought tickets and got in the first come first serve line for seating.

[–] thoro@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The difference is that before you walked up and got in line or got in early enough that you walk in and choose your seats. And your position was based on your arrival order. Now, you walk up and sorry all seats but the front were bought up and no they aren't here yet of course. Why would they be? It used to be you just timed it so you got there 30/45 minutes before the start.

I'm just yelling at clouds honestly. It's not that big a thing, and I reserve seats nowadays often, but mostly because I basically have to. Also, theaters are only ever crowded enough to care during tent pole releases and nowadays I just wait a few weekends.

I just find the social contact of getting to the venue when an event takes place early/on time to get your pick a better experience than choosing a seat on an app early. Probably a condition from growing up pre reservations.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Now, you walk up and sorry all seats but the front were bought up and no they aren’t here yet of course.

Fair enough, thought I'd argue that was still first-come-first served, but I get your point.