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Jul 5, 2012 | 1:12 pm

#103

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Quote:

Originally Posted by sfogate

What does Shares have to do with the boarding procedure? And for your FYI the New UA uses boarding group numbers ala the old UA,whereas the former CO boarded by rows.

I think he was referring to the number of delays of 5 min or so that shares causes, like when we scan a bp and it shows their itin is cncld, so we have to stop boarding, rebook, restnc, recheck in, prior to continuing. While it didn't play a part here, it does on a lot of flights, and it does hurt UA ontime operations.