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Old Jan 14, 2016 | 1:16 am
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
There are those who qualify for priority boarding who assume they can just turn up after general boarding has started and the throng in front of them will part like the Red Sea in order to let them through.

My experience has been you have to be at the gate before boarding starts to take advantage of it....even then it seems there is further priority boarding amongst those who qualify for priority boarding.
I agree with this. For the last four months I have been on crutches and I have always ensured that I am at the gate early enough to be asked for pre-boarding. There never seems to have been any priority amongst the pre-boarders, be they "needing assistance" or with children. Interestingly on our day trip to HNL at Christmas American Airlines just let the "priorities" board with the normal priority group so it didn't make much difference to me.
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