If you're traveling with no carry-on luggage, then is the optimal play to board near the end, even if you have status?

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Absolutely

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Be the last one on, especially if you have no status

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But don’t play your odds and miss boarding completely

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Thanks y'all, I'm so used to boarding as early as possible that sitting around until the last group feels wrong 😂

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Unless you’re in row 1 and won’t have a place for your laptop bag. Swimming upstream 10 rows for your bag or losing it in the closet negates being the last one aboard.

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No upgrade and no bulkhead today unfortunately.

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I always wait till final boarding- I hate standing in that hallway waiting for people to board

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The most baller status is to board the plane after everyone else. If you fly international F on some airlines, they pick you up from the lounge after everyone else has boarded, so you don’t have to walk with the unwashed masses. The only downside is if someone tries to poach your seat.

Unless you’re flying Southwest

*has status, gets middle seat*

I fly Southwest almost exclusively and love it, full disclosure.

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Yep. When I fly internationally, I stay in the lounge until the last 5 min before doors close even with status and with carryons Lounge has better cocktails than the plane’s PDB and the flight attendants always save overhead bin space.

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