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Old Jun 9, 2012 | 11:13 am
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Originally Posted by JOUY31
Well, at peak times in 2F1, I am not sure that is always doable; so this is why I believe any additional space that can be freed would improve the ease of implementation.
Why not? Every gate at 2F1 has the two sides of the boarding table used. It would only take one side marked as Skypriority and the other as regular and it would work. I fully agree with you that more room will make it even easier, and so much the better, but in fairness, DL manages it at JFK with some far more limited space in some parts of the terminal. This being said, as you suggest, maybe AF is awaiting the 'reshuffling' of its operations to fully implement the changes in 2F which would be very positive.

And I also agree that AF made a valuable effort to bring acces no1 to immigration (shame that the authorities do not always make the most of it and even more that EU lines are rarely if ever respected) but the big difference between AF and DL is that AF has worked on improving things at its hub airport while DL has worked on providing a cross-network, clearly visible system of priority airport services for its 'best customers'. As a result, for example, while things seem to have recently improved at LHR (but we were told this might not have been fully formalised so maybe I was just lucky on my recent AF trips), for several years, FB Platinum would get you fast track security at LHR on DL Y but not on AF Y. So while the 'marketing' element is important, to me, the universality of the benefit is much more so and I am glad that it is now being progressively extended to all Skyteam destinations.

@Xandrios - on which flights did you get it?? None of my recent flights ex-2F had a materialised priority lane so maybe they started implementing it for some destinations but not others??
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