Originally Posted by
B-HQC
I surprised nobody mentioned this. How is not having a 3rd boarder a valid excuse for not offering priority boarding?
In HKG CX sometimes only has two boarders as well... which is fine because they operate one line for F/J and one for Y. Y pax can use the F/J line when there are no F/J pax. Of course if any F/J pax shows up they have the right to cut in front of Y pax in their line.
Why doesn't/didn't BA do this?
I've seen something similar at JFK. There were two boarders and two queues for Y/W pax that faced towards the front of the gate. There was then another third queue for J/F pax that ran parallel to the front of the gate and met the front of one of the Y queues, meaning that J/F pax could effectively jump to the front of one of the Y queues. It worked perfectly well. J/F pax get priority boarding and there are two queues for efficient boarding of Y/W pax.