Originally Posted by
Rossodio
Yes, they are absolutely doing this. I have witnessed it a few times. It is not 100% consistent from what I have seen but probably 90% of GA's are enforcing. Does not seem to slow the process down to me. I board as group 1 (or FC if I get comp upgrade as EXP) of course, and can't speak for when you get deeper down the line and the gravitational pull of the gate has snared larger numbers of lice within its close orbit.
I don't see that slowing boarding process down either as by that point in time the bottleneck is at the other end of the jetbridge.