Originally Posted by
windsock
We were two Silvers flying in Economy with 4 family 'muggles'. It was very pleasant to share some of the benefits of BAEC with the family, and especially my father, now retired, but who was Gold flying CE twice a week in his last job.
That's abuse of the system as far as I'm concerned. At most there should be a +1 policy, otherwise you're left with huge groups going through wheer only 1 person has status...
Originally Posted by
Chris C
Went through on Sunday morning and was very disappointed. The queue went all the way back to the entrance and the process took about 20 mins. I took a peek at the normal security and it was empty

And this is the upshot I guess
(Said as someone without status who has paid far too much to fly the family in J out of Gatwick on BA).