A+ boarding position
Oct 22, 2015, 2:17 pm
#32
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Oct 25, 2015, 10:21 pm
#33
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I am guessing that your A+ boarding position is based on your status (A+ & A) and then what you paid for your ticket. Plus remember that if you connect, you contend with others checking in earlier due to an earlier originating flight.
I am already at over 120,000 TQPs for the year (all on flights). I got 22 on Friday.
I am already at over 120,000 TQPs for the year (all on flights). I got 22 on Friday.
Oct 26, 2015, 10:52 am
#34
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No. Positions for each flight are assigned individually, based on the "ranking" for that specific flight, at T-36. The only instance where your position could be affected by the scenario you mention is non-status, non-EBCI T-24 check-in.
Oct 26, 2015, 6:34 pm
#36
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I am guessing that your A+ boarding position is based on your status (A+ & A) and then what you paid for your ticket. Plus remember that if you connect, you contend with others checking in earlier due to an earlier originating flight.
I am already at over 120,000 TQPs for the year (all on flights). I got 22 on Friday.
I am already at over 120,000 TQPs for the year (all on flights). I got 22 on Friday.
Nov 16, 2015, 11:17 am
#38
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Had an associate today tell me that overall lifetime points were factored into the boarding position assignments, not just current status.
Nov 16, 2015, 12:01 pm
#39
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Nov 16, 2015, 3:21 pm
#40
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I tend to think it is a rolling average of your recent spend. I will travel on business select fares for a while then move to booking my travel way out on WGA fares. I travel every week DAL-HOU and back, so heavy commuter and heavy A-LIST. When I have been booking many BS fares, I notice that on the non-BS flights I am almost always A16. At worst 17 or 18. BTW, that is independent on fare paid (could be refundable, WGA, points, etc).
If I have been traveling on WGA fares for awhile, I notice my average boarding position will start to drop. Book more BS fares, move back closer to A16. I have noticed this rather consistently over the past 3 years FWIW.
If I have been traveling on WGA fares for awhile, I notice my average boarding position will start to drop. Book more BS fares, move back closer to A16. I have noticed this rather consistently over the past 3 years FWIW.
Nov 16, 2015, 4:06 pm
#41
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Nov 19, 2015, 12:14 pm
#42
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Just to weigh in late here...checked in for my flight tomorrow, bought WGA fare on points a while back. Boarding position is A17. All seems right to me as AL+.
Feb 11, 2016, 11:53 am
#43
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Same issue here. I have literally been A-16 to A-18 for past 6 years of flying every week. Beginning in January i started getting boarding positions A-25 to A-30 ,so far not above that. Something has changed with the way they are assigning A+ boarding numbers. I thought since i used over 900k points last year flying family and friends all over the place and was down to a Million points that maybe just maybe that was part of the reason ,but after talking to fellow A+ flyers and seeing this post that that is not part of the problem.
Feb 11, 2016, 1:08 pm
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Feb 11, 2016, 3:23 pm
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100+Every year, But last year had to do 75 on UA 😬 to go back and forth to Hawaii 😎, poor me! Lol! So just did 50 on WN.
Last edited by Pdyer; Feb 11, 2016 at 4:39 pm