Originally Posted by
DanTravels
Now that's something I'd really like to see occur industry-wide. I honestly don't see the point to sending elites down the jetway when it's half full of "passengers who need additional time to board and families traveling with small children."

Sounds like you got a really excellent GA.
Passengers with wheelchairs and canes are allowed to board BEFORE GS passengers. It happens on every flight I have been on and I certainly don't mind. But I have never seen families with small children board early on UA since the zone system began. They are supposed to board when all the other passengers board (i.e., by zone). Families with small children are almost always turned away when they try to board early and that's the way it should be.