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Old Jun 13, 2017, 6:26 am
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RatherBeInYOW
 
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Originally Posted by drvannostren
Wait...does an escalator to a plane exist? If so where, cuz I've never seen one and I'd like to.
I assume he's referring to getting off the bus and going inside and up the escalator to a C gate waiting area before boarding the plane. In this case the bus did not take them to a remote stand, it took them to a gate in a different part of FRA.

Originally Posted by drvannostren
I had a similar experience at GRU flying on UA. I was in Global First and there was basically everyone herded into buses without groups or anything. I'm usually a back of the bus flyer, but I was really surprised that they didn't at least do F/J in a group then everyone else.
Normally AC does priority boarding for board by bus, including at FRA. However since you're getting on/off a bus it is a bit pointless; all that group 1/2 ensures is that you'll be on the first bus, probably with several group 3 folks as well (depending on the number of status pax obviously).
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