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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Business
Gene Marks

Airline boarding: how to end the game of thrones fight for baggage space

A cheerful man puts a suitcase in an overhead locker.
A cheerful man puts a suitcase in an overhead locker. Seasoned travelers know the experience is rarely this much fun. Photograph: Yaroslav Astakhov/Alamy

As a frequent business traveler, I was excited to see that United Airlines has devised a way to fix what is one of my – and most other business travelers’ – biggest pet peeves.

No, it’s not sitting next to that guy wearing open-toed sandals. Or the person next to me who brought onboard a large rotisserie chicken with gravy for lunch, or the loud person conducting a business meeting on her cellphone until being asked – for the third time – to put it away by the flight attendant. It’s the boarding process. It’s awful.

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