Originally Posted by
harpu4
Do you agree this doesn't make much sense? Business Class and FB Silver having the same boarding priority?
It depends on how you look at it.
This is continental Europe. Many continental European companies don't pay for business class when employees/agents are on a short-haul itinerary, where flight times frequently aren't longer than an hour or two.
Hence, many of the most valuable customers sit in economy class. It may make good financial sense to show appreciation to these customers by letting them board along with business.
Especially if a good fraction of the business class consists of less valuable customers on a feeder flight to long haul (including tourists on a semi-annual business class long-haul ticket etc.).
Disclaimer: Just making a case above, not a general statement. I do realize there are intra-European routes (such as LHR-LUX, LHR-ZRH, LCY-FRA, etc.) where you have a high proportion of execs in J who actually pay for J even when on a purely short-haul trip. But this thread is in the KL forum.
Originally Posted by
Concerto
That holding pen is a major bugbear at AMS
Bend it like FR.