Originally Posted by
azfanboy
Been seeing big groups of minors with their escorts in the pre-board group for roughly the last month in PHX on the flight to EWR. At first, I thought it was a one time thing but it's become a pretty regular occurrence. They usually board before 1K.
Is this a new thing or a change in United's pre-board policy?
Families w/ sub-two spawn are after GS and before 1K, according to UA boarding process (and has been, for years). It is often abused. Fairly often, seems like any kindergarten-3rd graders are used as the "sub-2" props by parents for pre-boarding, and they bring along extended family. Same with grandma w/ cane accompanied by 5 others at outset of boarding. It is what it is. UA GAs usually aren't going to say "no". I'll have to say they usually don't take up bin space where I'm sitting after boarding later. Annoying, but not end of world.