Originally Posted by
goodeats21
Limited experience this year with UA domestic, but not seeing any improvement at all.
+1 I fly mostly SFO-IAH, SFO-DEN, SFO-IAD, and often find GS boarding into economy before us lowly 1Ks

YMMV
Nice to see that my experience is not an aberration, as shown by DidItClear. For some reason it always seems easier to clear when returning into SFO than departing. Puzzling...