{"id":338918,"date":"2025-12-29T01:00:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/flight-attendant-why-never-board-last\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:00:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:00:16","slug":"im-a-flight-attendant-this-is-why-you-should-never-board-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=338918","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m A Flight Attendant &amp; This Is Why You Should Never Board Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traveling by air can be stressful. Some<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"278728\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/passengers\/\"  >passengers<\/a><\/span> may think it is better to wait until the last minute to board an aircraft, and that it saves time and is less stressful. This may work if a passenger has no carry-on<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"259761\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/luggage\/\"  >luggage<\/a><\/span>, it&#8217;s a quiet flight with few passengers, and you want to minimize time sitting down. However, it is not advised for many practical reasons, including the gate being closed early and missing the flight completely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being organized with time leads to a calmer flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,496,675,613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-cabin-crew","category-flight-attendant","category-passenger-experience"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=338918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338919,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338918\/revisions\/338919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=338918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=338918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=338918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}