What the? I'm losing a benefit that I never actually had.
I've been WP for last three years, and whilst O/S travel has been infrequent (but at least annual) never had a "P" sticker, or used a P queue. In fact when I went to NZ a couple of weeks ago, didn't even notice a priority queue in either direction. Never really thought much of it either, as at MEL I've never had to wait more than a couple of minutes in the queue to get out, and as for getting back in 2-3 minutes as well .... even after LAX flight, always well in advance of the luggage arriving.
ps re above post. The taxes and charges collected on international tix are not insignificant, and I am sure that some (or all of these?) cover customs processing. So basically it is a user pays system, so why shouldn't the more frequent pax (most likely those to be a higher tier) get express treatments for their loyalty! Also frequent pax KNOW how to fill out the forms and can usually be processed quicker anyway, so probably take up less "public" resources anyway.
Last edited by lokijuh; Jun 23, 2004 at 3:44 am