Originally Posted by
DL4EVAH
While we're on the subject of "Breezeway" boarding-- I'd like to know if anyone has used it, or anyone has seen anyone else use it.
I've been flying every week, on mostly full flights (to/from LGA and JFK), and whenever I'm not upgraded, I wait till the last minute to board. (I hate waiting in the plane without a nice tropical drink in my hand.) I've never once seen the Breezeway used ever. Usually, there's one GA receiving boarding passes on one side (away from the Breezeway carpet)-- it may be hard to notice if anyone's on the Breezeway line. More importantly, it seems awfully rude to show up on the Breezeway carpet while there's a long line of tired (unprivileged) passengers waiting to board.
I've used it several times. The GAs over on the D Concourse seem to do a good job in my experiences of announcing that if you are eligible to use Breezeway (and then states who), then they should board only via Breezeway.
I've used it before several times though on other flights at other airports. One time in ATL I had to wait a few passengers, but in general the GAs will stop general boarding immediately and take me. There was one time that a passenger in the General line started to complain that I was cutting the line, but I just tuned him out and boarded (and took the glorious left turn on a 757).