Originally Posted by yyznomad

That makes sense. For short flights it doesn't matter to me either (I usually try to board last or near last, but that's beside the point).

And at which threshold/criteria would this no longer be acceptable, given the well-established and publicly posted zoned boarding protocol? An 80-minute flight on a CRJ? A 90-minute flight on a CR9?
The problem occurs with the GA's discretion, as documented thoroughly in this thread with larger aircraft (even with relatively short flights) during regular operations.

The whole purpose of zoned boarding is to enhance the experience for a certain cohort of customers (I am paraphrasing AC), and not meant to necessarily expedite the boarding process.

So in a way, perhaps AC should make amendments to the protocol and just apply (and enforce it) for regular operations zoned boarding for aircraft that have more than one cabin of service.

I believe what irks many here (Zone 1/2ers or not) are the seemingly random acts of regular operations boarding protocol announced by the GAs. AC has the published protocol that has been out for years, but there are still agents, during regular operations, who continue to disregard this protocol. It then ends up being a judgement call by us armchair quarterbacks whether situation A, B, C, etc. warrants legitimate zoned boarding process.

Originally Posted by RangerNS

Priority boarding is more important, IMO, for shorter flights as shorter flights tend to be on smaller aircraft where bin space is at a premium. I don't necessarily mind Zone 1 & 2 being called together when there are 70 PAX and the GA can see there are only 5 people that qualify, so sure, some discretion is OK. But "Zones 1 and 2 may board now" and then, without even the mic clicking off "Now boarding Zone 3".

Originally Posted by canadiancow

But there are 35 zone 2s on the 50 seat plane.

If there are more than 5 zone 2s, zone 1 should be called separately.

Originally Posted by yyznomad

Sure, but it sounds like we're starting (or have done so for awhile in this thread, perhaps) to equate zoned boarding to "ability to stow carry-on luggage". Does the Zone 1/2 experience equate to ability to easily stow carry-on luggage (either in the aircraft, or gate check where available) and that's it?

Originally Posted by YLWflyer

Originally Posted by Adam Smith

Spotted at YLW today. Typo or revisions coming to the zoned boarding policy?] Perhaps to allow Comfort and preferred seats to board before families etc?

Originally Posted by 24left

Looks like this photo issue is going to be a challenge:

Originally Posted by yyznomad

I see the images that Adam provided just fine, on every browser I have on all of my devices.
So.. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Originally Posted by YEG_SE4Life

3 browsers on my laptop, and 2 browsers on my phone. I do not see the images in Adam's or Two Four's posts.

Originally Posted by yyznomad

It's the FT image uploader tool - it only works half the time and for half the readers here. (half meaning 50% +/- 100% )

We could all go to a direct hosted link of the image. The only negative is that it won't be captured in a quote response, whereas the FT hosted image will show in the quote of the response.