Priority boarding - shared tickets
Oct 10, 2019, 2:07 pm
#2
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YOW
Programs: Flying Blue Plat, Accor Gold
Posts: 392
Where are you flying from? Are you taking AF/KL, or subsidiaries, or Skyteam partners?
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
Oct 10, 2019, 3:31 pm
#3
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: Flying Blue Plat, Air Europa Silver, IHG Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,011
Where are you flying from? Are you taking AF/KL, or subsidiaries, or Skyteam partners?
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
If we do want to generalize: In South America, rules are often bent depending on the whim of the person on the day, and it certainly helps to be well dressed and polite because the class differences on that continent are indeed quite massive. Speaking the language can also be helpful, although on the other hand English is also a sign of social status and that can also play to your advantage.
Oct 10, 2019, 3:32 pm
#4
Join Date: Sep 2014
Programs: Flying Blue Plat, Air Europa Silver, IHG Plat, Accor Plat
Posts: 1,011
Where are you flying from? Are you taking AF/KL, or subsidiaries, or Skyteam partners?
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
If we do want to generalize: In South America, rules are often bent depending on the whim of the person on the day, and it certainly helps to be well dressed and polite because the class differences on that continent are indeed quite massive. Speaking the language can also be helpful, although on the other hand English is also a sign of social status and that can also play to your advantage.
Oct 10, 2019, 8:14 pm
#5
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
Posts: 2,063
Unofficially, where humans do the eligibility checking, companions are usually ok. I have never seen a companion to a status holder get kicked out of the priority boarding line.
Oct 11, 2019, 1:24 am
#6
Join Date: Apr 2017
Posts: 293
Where are you flying from? Are you taking AF/KL, or subsidiaries, or Skyteam partners?
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
At CDG, the lady told me that I could bring up to 3 companions for priority service (security and passport control) and of course without any issue with check-in and boarding.
At AMS, the automated machine simply won't allow any pax without Sky Priority using the lane for intra-Europe flights. Maybe the dragon may allow but never tried.
At outstation, it will all depend. In North America, they usually allow a few companions without asking. However, in South America, it is much stricter to the cardholder only for priority boarding. Sometimes you shall just need to talk to the GA in advance to confirm if they allow you to borad with your companions.
My girlfriend always uses the ams automated machine in skypriority lane... always open and she is silver...
Unfortunately or fortunately... Never in bsl or str loll
Oct 11, 2019, 3:32 am
#7
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: VIE/PRG
Programs: FB Platinum, Marriott Platinum Elite
Posts: 1,592
When I travel with my girlfriend she does not have ST E+ but is never problem to use fast track and priority boarding - security check gate must be accompanied by humans but they never have a problem. She was refused only in VIE and not once, so clearly it does not work there. Using business class counter even she is on different PNR never problem.
Looks like I used phrase never problem in this article more than in my whole life lol
Looks like I used phrase never problem in this article more than in my whole life lol
Oct 11, 2019, 10:35 am
#8
Join Date: Feb 2013
Programs: LH M&M, BA EC, DL SM
Posts: 5,731
Didn't have a problem to take a DL Silver (Skyteam Elite and thus not Sky Priority) companion with me (DL Platinum) at places like AMS and EZE on multiple occasions recently. Very rarely got asked whether we were "traveling together".
Oct 11, 2019, 11:47 am
#9
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: CW
Programs: Marriott titanium, KL/AF FB Ulti
Posts: 644
Oct 14, 2019, 2:20 am
#11
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: CMN,DXB,CDG
Programs: Flying Blue Platinum
Posts: 764
Never had an issue for check-in, security or boarding. Just say "they're with me" and it shouldn't be an issue in most places (but I definitely did not fly everywhere). When you have "automated gates", you can sometimes kindly ask a check-in or whatever agent you can find to add the SkyPriority tag to your companions boarding pass. I have at least one instance where it worked (and tbh, the only place I tried/needed it), in GVA: they have an automated gate for SP security. The friend traveling with me did not have SP, so we went to an agent nearby and kindly asked him if he could reissue a boarding pass with SP for my friend (what I assume is probably just a tick-box in their system), and he obliged. SP is not inherently linked to status, since you can get it through other means than FF status STE+. Hence why I believe it can be manually added. It definitely help if you're flying from an airport that has actual AF staff or people that really know the system.