“We would like to begin boarding our flight at this time.” You are familiar with that friendly boarding announcement from the gate agent. Unfortunately, it means the next 45 minutes of your life will ...

CHICAGO – Airlines are always tinkering with boarding procedures to save precious time. United Airlines, in an internal memo, says it will start boarding economy class passengers with window seats ...

Southwest Airlines will soon roll out a sweeping overhaul of its boarding process. The Texas-based airline, which has used open seating for more than 50 years, will shift to assigned seating starting ...

Around this time last year, Southwest Airlines announced that it would scrap its signature open-seating model in favor of a more traditional assigned seating system, chipping away at its identity as a ...

United Airlines will start boarding passengers in economy class with window seats first starting next week, a move designed to reduce the time planes spend sitting on the ground. The airline said in ...