Originally Posted by
Foodiedoc
I should have worded it better. Like I said they could be JAL elites, and I am Asian myself. I was on JL333 F earlier this year and I was surprised by the number of people in Group 1. Many people with JAL app showed JAL Diamond, so it could be that everyone else was Diamond/JGC besides me. Just mentioned it because it's my first F flight so far with slow service, the ones before were better. Maybe because it's the A350 new aircraft.
It is shocking how many people are Group 1 boarding on JL, it feels like half the plane, but somehow JL manages to board so quickly and efficiently that it still doesn't take long even if you're Group 1 number 50 in queue.
Before I had OWE status it was also painful if you were early for check in at an outstation, because everyone and their brother has access to Business Class check in, so it's disproportionately long, but not a huge issue if you come later after the backlog is cleared.