Originally Posted by
QRC3288
ah, is that how it's done at NRT? The boarding line at NRT is abysmal, one of the worst I've seen at any CX port...especially if you get 773. I was probably #100 to board, as a DM in J class a few weeks ago.
I normally don't care, but I left the lounge too early and the flight had an additional delay at the gate. Everyone was standing around there all tense, and the line fully formed 20+ minutes before boarding commenced due to the secondary delay. Originally I was thinking I'll just wait it out, let all the elites go first and then I'll join the J queue at the end. But it kept growing, and growing, and growing....until the whole area was packed with people tensely standing in line, or sitting on the seats / floor. Not pleasant. It was only security people checking passports / BPs in line, and as such nobody got pulled out and taken to the front.
Especially on those 70s gates, when you going to the gate close to the boarding time, it is very difficult getting to the lower floor since the crowd from priority line are blocking the stairs already.
It was my first time get jumped to the front in NRT too, normally I wouldn't asked, but this time I saw two guys were getting escorted, so trying my luck to get away from the tensed priority line. The agents seems to me doing it regularly.