{"id":847999,"date":"2011-06-27T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/american-airlines-flight-attendants-say-new-boarding-policy-is-causing-chaos\/"},"modified":"2019-08-21T07:23:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T11:23:52","slug":"american-airlines-flight-attendants-say-new-boarding-policy-is-causing-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/american-airlines-flight-attendants-say-new-boarding-policy-is-causing-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"American Airlines Flight Attendants Say New Boarding Policy is Causing Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/airlines\/american-airlines-aa\" target=\"_blank\">American Airlines flight<\/a> attendants is claiming that the carrier\u2019s new boarding process is creating pre-flight chaos for both passengers and cabin crew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The airline recently revised its boarding policy to allow passengers to board aircraft in the order that they checked in, regardless of their seat position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American had previously adhered to the traditional back-to-front boarding process in which passengers with seats in the back of the plane were allowed to board first.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American changed the policy in May in an attempt to streamline the process and reduce gate traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to the complaints, an airline spokesman defended the new process claiming that it has proven to be a faster and more efficient way of boarding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/06\/american-airlines-boarding\/175704\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The union representing American Airlines flight attendants is claiming that the carrier\u2019s new boarding process is creating pre-flight chaos for both passengers and cabin crew. &nbsp; The airline recently revised its boarding policy to allow passengers to board aircraft in the order that they checked in, regardless of their seat position. &nbsp; American had previously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98902086,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847999\/revisions\/98902086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}