Originally Posted by
saathich
This has probably been discussed elsewhere, but does anyone have insight, real or imagined, on how the boarding process will change post merger? Love the UA boarding which separates out 1K - 1p -2p - general. Even when I was a 2P, this was good enough, because the main benefit to boarding early is overhead storage space, which is still there...and it prevents the CO stampede that we all know an love.
My guess is that the combined airline will go to the UA model, but any chance that CO adopts before the formal merger of elite programs?
Unless of course a low tier elite arrives late. in that case, CO's model is 1000 times better than UAs model where low tier elites are not given the tender mercy of red carpet boarding rights.
The correct answer here is to adopt the UA method of sorting within the Elite/F tier a bit more, but to keep the CO modeal of allowing all elites to use the blue carpet so that there is some help for late arriving elites. But the UA rules need to be modified so that on international F and then C board before 1K. 1k in monkey should not be clogging up the jetway for premium passengers.