Originally Posted by
crazy8534
Being last off the plane to immigration would be a killer for that idea for me: you can worry about arriving behind a jumbo full of passengers by bad luck but deliberately putting yourself at the back of a jumbo you are also on seems to be asking for trouble. Have spent too much of my life in immigration queues already, although e-passport readers both sides of the Atlantic are making this less of a problem I'll admit.
Also: I don't know the answer to this but in WT do they ask your meal choice if you have status and keep something aside for you / a bit like the galley ranking in CW? Or is it just "chicken or beef?" all the way down the plane?
On CX they do (not always though),but I never had a problem on any airline to ask the crew to keep a particular meal choice for me (you don't have to have status for that,you can just ask nicely).I don't eat pork and they may run out of non-pork options before reaching me.
Re:immigration. Don't forget that if you are behind 400 pax on your flight,it does not mean that you will be behind 400 pax in queues for immigration. Some flights have large proportions of connecting pax.Some will go to counters that you will not/can not (eg:residents/foregeneirs/visa on arrival etc).Also fast track is often avaiable for status pax in Y (LHR/BKK/KUL).