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Re:First-class air travel is in decline by GreaterFool on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:21PM (#19339633)
Probably to make the whole process speedier and cheaper for the airline.

You'd have to completely finish boarding for lower classes and then give a decent grace period for first class passengers to just show up at their leisure.

Also first class (and often business) are kinda separated so no one stares you down.

I fly premium economy sometimes and you're the first to board and sit upfront and then you have to watch everybody walking by!

It's a world of difference between premium economy and business, sigh.

Norwegian Air Shuttle had a pretty cool idea with their premium cabin. It's not crazy expensive but the seats are so much better!

Re:First-class air travel is in decline by cwt137 on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:57PM (#19340124)
First class boarding first is absolutely the wrong way to speed up boarding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
Re:First-class air travel is in decline by tcgv on Friday March 08, 2019 @02:36PM (#19341360)
The few times I flew business it wasn't separated. I felt really awkward while economy passengers were boarding and staring at me in my seat while walking down the aisle.

When I'm flying economy (most of the time) I always avoid staring at business passengers so they don't feel awkward as well.