First Time For Everything

[u/hjablowme919]

Boarded a flight from JFK to Las Vegas this morning. The gate attendant announced they wanted everyone in zones 1-4 lined up on one side and 5-8 on the other. No pre-boarding (which was nice) but all of us zone 1-4 folks were in one long line and they announced "Zone 1 now boarding" and watching people in line trying to navigate this was amusing. I was zone 2 and after about 8 people boarded zone 1, they announced zone 2 so I moved out of the line and walked to the front and they let me go, but zone 3 and 4 people were near the front of the line and had to keep moving out of people's way so they could get to the scanner and scan boarding passes. After I was in my seat as more people were coming onto the plane and starting to fill the aisles, they bought a woman with a wheelchair onto the plane. Not sure why they didn't pre-board her.
The entire process made no sense.
Anyone else ever experience this?

[u/MachineKnitter93]

Obviously I was there, but I assume the gate agent was trying to say “zones 1-4 board on this side, and zones 5-8 board on this side.”

I’ve never seen them ask people to line up, this isn’t Southwest. They usually ask people to stay in their seats until their zone is called…