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Old Dec 12, 2011 | 7:00 pm
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Originally Posted by Steve M
In your case specifically (and not referring to the boarding problems in general), it sounds like all Elite/Premier members on the flight received upgrades to FC. Thus, there was no reason to call for general elite boarding.
I suppose that would make sense! But... in that case, why call 1K/GS/PPlat specifically? As far as I could tell, no (or almost no) elites had received F boarding passes before boarding. I noted at least 3 double beeps during the boarding process. So while we did all get upgrades, most of us didn't know it until we boarded.

I s'pose one could argue that since we were going to end up in F anyway, there was no need to pre-board elites. But (maybe this is just me, and a character flaw) I find it disconcerting when the boarding process doesn't follow the script!
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