Originally Posted by
Crampedin13A
What is the point of the tensa barriers? As [MENTION=125870]sunshinebob[/MENTION] 's image of the sign nobody is let into the boarding area anyway so you just get an enormous confused line. There are airlines that know how to use them where before boarding actually starts you queue into the line divided by tensas by your respective group. There is absolutely no sense in the way BA boards especially when for 25 minutes minimum before any groups are called they are doing the free gate checking of bags which sometimes seems like at least a third of the plane
The only thing that I can imagine is that the person in charge of capital purchases/ floor space had in mind the standard and logical queues (like you see for Priority when flying your average LCC), then the person in charge of running floor operations didn't want people to pre-queue and so closed them off - leading to the chaos we get today.