Over on Southwest, they now board children in the middle, halfway through the masses.
The wheelchair, frequent flyers, premium paying persons on first, then some economy flyers who printed their boarding passes early. Then the families. Then the masses.
Seems to work.
It never ceases to amaze me that the wheelchair passengers are suddenly mobile when the plane arrives. It’s like a miracle cure.
I am amazed how much abuse went with the early board with small children. I give a pass to a “in hand” baby. But when children are mobile, it is just an annoyance.
What ALL of this is really saying is that the overhead bins are too limited and too small.