Originally Posted by
jfallesen
BA278 SJC–LHR on Thursday had no group signs up until five minutes before boarding started. Once they put them up, people started queuing in an orderly fashion and boarding was perfectly by the book and stricly by group numbers. Worked flawlessly at this point.
While I suspect the late posting of the group signs was not intentional, it did actually seem to improve the waiting situation as people just stood around in a relaxed manner and did not form the long queues that easily block the space around the gate long before boarding started.
It was a similar situation on the 278 on Saturday too. Agent came into the lounge and announced that the BA flight had started boarding. Left the lounge about 5 minutes later and went to the gate to find boarding hadn't started, nor were the signs out. Waited about another 15 minutes for boarding to actually start, which was also very orderly on a full flight.