Originally Posted by
Emb170man
Our manuals say 20 minutes and a lot of the older flight attendants will thro a fit if you start throwing pax at them before that.
I'm a 30 minutes board them kind of guy. Whatever makes the plane leave 5 minutes early (if at all possible) then great. Just kindly tell the FA that we are boarding 30 mins prior.
I'll do MDW-LGA-MDW or LGA-DCA-LGA all day long. Rampers & gate agents are very nice and the rampers know how to put the bags on the plane in time.
I am averaging the Load Report 10 minutes before departure in MDW and LGA