Do you exercise your priority boarding when arriving late at the gate?
Jul 13, 2019, 9:09 am
#61
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Jul 13, 2019, 9:41 am
#62
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Ah, so your so-called empathy has limits. It's okay to, in your words, be "flaunting and provacative" when it suits you. This has been a trolling exercise, hasn't it.
Jul 13, 2019, 10:00 am
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Jul 13, 2019, 1:53 pm
#66
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So it’s 72-to-1 in favor of using the priority lane?
Personally, I like flipping the bird to the Y pax waiting in line when I go by. Suckas!!!
Personally, I like flipping the bird to the Y pax waiting in line when I go by. Suckas!!!
Jul 13, 2019, 1:53 pm
#67
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Surprised this hasn't come up yet, but many times at PHL and sometimes CLT they close the rope on the priority line after group 4. The obvious impression is no one is allowed to use that line any more, although i haven't pressed my luck to see what they would do.
Jul 13, 2019, 3:49 pm
#68
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Once upon a time, I probably would have just waited and would consider it bad form to cut the line, even if I could. However, these days, I couldn't care less, since the majority of people who fly nowadays haven't the slightest concept of reciprocity, especially when it comes to manners and etiquette.
Jul 13, 2019, 8:38 pm
#69
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I do use the priority lane even if I am late (my group already called) and regardless of where I am sitting (Y PE F etc)
I don't feel bad at all.
I don't do it to flaunt. I don't like to wait and if I have the privilege (status, F ticket, etc) why not?
I also fly domestic DL a few times a year. I have no status with DL. I board with my group. Sometimes I see pax going straight to the sky priority lane. It doesn't bother me if I notice it. It is not that they suddenly back up the general line as it is usually just one or two pax.
I don't feel bad at all.
I don't do it to flaunt. I don't like to wait and if I have the privilege (status, F ticket, etc) why not?
I also fly domestic DL a few times a year. I have no status with DL. I board with my group. Sometimes I see pax going straight to the sky priority lane. It doesn't bother me if I notice it. It is not that they suddenly back up the general line as it is usually just one or two pax.
Jul 14, 2019, 12:26 am
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Once upon a time, I probably would have just waited and would consider it bad form to cut the line, even if I could. However, these days, I couldn't care less, since the majority of people who fly nowadays haven't the slightest concept of reciprocity, especially when it comes to manners and etiquette.
But on another flight I still just boarded with everybody else when I arrived at the gate after my boarding group had been called.
Jul 14, 2019, 9:10 am
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Of course, doesnt it rank high in being a DYKWIA! 
In reality, Ive only done it once.
In reality, Ive only done it once.
Jul 14, 2019, 9:11 am
#72
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I got called out and heckled for doing this by a couple of bourgeois types when traveling on BA in France a few years back. It was a smaller airport, LYS IIRC, and the BA service was provided by a contractor who had no interest in backing me up.
I would still do it again
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I would still do it again
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Jul 14, 2019, 10:54 am
#73
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I got called out and heckled for doing this by a couple of bourgeois types when traveling on BA in France a few years back. It was a smaller airport, LYS IIRC, and the BA service was provided by a contractor who had no interest in backing me up.
I would still do it again.
I would still do it again
.
Jul 14, 2019, 11:18 am
#74
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Simple if your are CK or Groups 1-4 you are allowed to use the Priority Line at your leisure once your group has been called. I'm not sure why there's even an argument.
Jul 14, 2019, 12:33 pm
#75
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I only have to do this when my inbound AA flight is late and I have to run to make my connection. Then it comes in handy.