FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
Programs: AF/KL Life Plat, BA GGL+GfL, ALL Plat, Hilton Diam, Marriott Gold, blablablah, etc
Posts: 30,536
In my experience LHR has some of the worst implemented group boarding in the BA network for some reason despite having the required lanes design. People just queue in arrival order wherever they are (with no interest for group numbers) especially at the B and C satellites. In that sense, the rightly notorious British fascination for queuing works as to worsen the boarding experience as it seems that in people's minds, queuing trumps grouping. I do not understand why no one is trying to police it, not even with announcements etc. On an A380, it makes for truly chaotic boarding experience.