It's not rude, but I know how you feel.
Last week I had to sprint across ORD to get from Concourse F to Concourse C in time to catch a really tight connection. I arrived toward the tail end of Group 2 boarding but queued up in the Group 1 line. The GA motioned me through ahead of the Group 2-ers, scanned my boarding pass, and then announced, "Okay, that's the last carry-on we can accommodate."
I felt really bad for the guy who had been in the front of the Group 2 line until I showed up. Not bad enough to gate check, mind you, but I guess there was a little bit of retribution in the fact that the only space for my rollaboard was in the way back of the plane and I was in row 7. I was the last one off.
Last edited by LTBoston; Aug 28, 2018 at 5:12 pm