Washington Post: Why do ‘gate lice’ line up early for a flight ...
2023年12月14日 · Travel News - Washington Post: Why do ‘gate lice’ line up early for a flight? Psychologists explain - Fun WaPo article (paywall) on gate lice. The comments are just as good as those on FT. Oddly though I have always thought the …
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
2017年1月30日 · Combine bad PA systems that garble pretty much everything a GA tries to say, a preference to shove all planes to adjacent gates in the name of reducing labor costs, and the resulting 767's worth of passengers crammed into a space originally designed to seat the passenger count of a CRJ 700, and gate louse is a perfectly rational action when there's no …
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
2010年3月8日 · Delta Air Lines | SkyMiles - The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming - Last night at MCO I observed the most United type of event I've ever seen on DL. It was ~ 20 minutes before boarding was set to start and there was this guy: (sorry for the poor quality wanted to protect the innocent kettles in the gate
The cause for gate lice? - FlyerTalk Forums
2012年11月26日 · To answer the question which is posed by the title of the thread: Bad gate agents (cause lice). Most of these lice would not exist if there was a firm, and consistent enforcement of the boarding rules across the whole network. Some GA's are strict and follow riles to a "T", some just don't care.
This Gives New Meaning to the Term “Gate Lice ... - FlyerTalk
2017年10月11日 · Priority boarding might be good for your health. A study by Arizona State University and reported by the Los Angeles Times has found that current plane boarding practices are an excellent way to get sick. According to the study, infection rates increase when people are crowded together, as when participating in general boarding practices. […]
Okay, I get gate lice. But who are these people? - FlyerTalk
2013年6月18日 · Delta Air Lines | SkyMiles - Okay, I get gate lice. But who are these people? - Who are these people who at the VERY instant the aircraft comes to a stop are pushing their way forward to the door, only to stand for three minutes (blocking others …
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
I stated this elsewhere in this thread and I'll state it again: While it may be true that some people are gate lice because of DYKWIA self-importance, the majority of gate lice (like myself, proudly and unashamedly) are such for the sole reason of securing overhead storage space preferably near our seat or slightly in front of it, to avoid having to swim upstream upon disembarking.
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
2010年11月18日 · These folks find it normal, thus they do it the next time and attract more lice (I prefer gate scabies, but, I digress). When it devolves into "normal" behavior, the FT travelers are doomed to weaving their way through the crowds to their seats up front Without a countervailing force (i.e. the GAs and redcoats) putting a stop to this, we all ...
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
2017年1月19日 · Delta Air Lines | SkyMiles - The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming - Originally Posted by WWads An airline ticket that someone is showing in public is hardly a private document. You need to be in pretty close proximity to read someone's travel documents especially from a phone.
The Gate Lice are coming... the GATE LICE are coming
2016年3月24日 · At SEA, the gate lice have another cousin - the lice who stand at the top of the escalators where you exit the secure area from the tram to wait for people, despite there being red tape on the ground identifying where not to stand so as not to block the flow of people coming up and off the escalators.