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Jul 19, 2018, 2:30 pm

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Originally Posted by LordHamster

Ironically, for all the years that I was childless, CO used to allow kids to pre-board. Then they eliminated the kids pre-board announcement for a while... during which I had kids. Literally as soon as my youngest turned 2, they revived the children under two pre-board. Now, even with GS, I STILL am stuck. I guess I need to wait till I'm a grandparent.

I'm fine with Military first as well because:
1. There are almost never any on my flights
2. When there are, they are super fast & efficient.
3. Because they deserve it IMO.

For what it's worth -- and this is one datapoint -- today at SFO gate 88, the agent was reading off her screen, and announced, "First we will board passengers with disabilities, our Global Services members, then military, and finally families with children two and under." And that's how she did it.

This would be different putting GS as #2 vs #4 in the pre-boards. Of course I agree GS should be #1 for the reasons mentioned above. Any other experiences recently?

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