Tracking BA Fast Track and Priority Boarding
Oct 3, 2017, 12:52 pm
#421
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I have flown from LBA twice in the last couple of weeks and no priority boarding on either occasion from gate 3. Come to think of it when I have caught the LHR flight from gate 4/5 there was no priority boarding either.
Perhaps a LBA regular - maybe @KARFA ? - could provide another data point?
Perhaps a LBA regular - maybe @KARFA ? - could provide another data point?
Oct 3, 2017, 1:03 pm
#422
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I have flown from LBA twice in the last couple of weeks and no priority boarding on either occasion from gate 3. Come to think of it when I have caught the LHR flight from gate 4/5 there was no priority boarding either.
Perhaps a LBA regular - maybe @KARFA ? - could provide another data point?
Perhaps a LBA regular - maybe @KARFA ? - could provide another data point?
I must admit I have never seen the staff at lba do priority boarding - although I seem to remember it being reported occasionally on the board.
What I have seen done a few times is that the gate will be open and boarding called in the lounge first then after a few minutes it is called in the general departures area and put up on the boards.
Oct 3, 2017, 1:31 pm
#423
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Oct 18, 2017, 1:02 pm
#425
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(As ever on FT, this was possibly already known to everyone but muggins here.)
Oct 27, 2017, 1:32 pm
#428
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Oct 27, 2017, 1:36 pm
#429
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Oct 27, 2017, 1:51 pm
#430
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The issue with BRU is that the airport charges 4 euros per pax for fast track security.
Hope BA would get generouos enough for Gold & Silver pax.
As the boarding process at BRU is not bad but not the most fluid either.
Hope BA would get generouos enough for Gold & Silver pax.
As the boarding process at BRU is not bad but not the most fluid either.
Oct 27, 2017, 2:39 pm
#432
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Boarding at ZRH is getting ridiculous. Before the incoming flight has even landed there a huge priority queue snaking right across the departure lounge.
CE, G, S, B, E, S and R are all called forward together.
Last week the agent told me that as many as 75% of passengers on the late evening flight are eligible for local priority boarding.
About two weeks ago a very DYKWIA woman pushed to the front of the line and announced “I have a silver card. All these people can’t have silver cards. I am boarding now.” And on she went.
CE, G, S, B, E, S and R are all called forward together.
Last week the agent told me that as many as 75% of passengers on the late evening flight are eligible for local priority boarding.
About two weeks ago a very DYKWIA woman pushed to the front of the line and announced “I have a silver card. All these people can’t have silver cards. I am boarding now.” And on she went.
Oct 28, 2017, 1:41 am
#433
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Boarding at ZRH is getting ridiculous. Before the incoming flight has even landed there a huge priority queue snaking right across the departure lounge.
CE, G, S, B, E, S and R are all called forward together.
Last week the agent told me that as many as 75% of passengers on the late evening flight are eligible for local priority boarding.
About two weeks ago a very DYKWIA woman pushed to the front of the line and announced “I have a silver card. All these people can’t have silver cards. I am boarding now.” And on she went.
CE, G, S, B, E, S and R are all called forward together.
Last week the agent told me that as many as 75% of passengers on the late evening flight are eligible for local priority boarding.
About two weeks ago a very DYKWIA woman pushed to the front of the line and announced “I have a silver card. All these people can’t have silver cards. I am boarding now.” And on she went.
Oct 28, 2017, 3:50 am
#434
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My point was that the BA out station staff should be managing it better than they are. Given the high load of Bronze and Silver card holders, why is boarding not conducted in a more sensible manner with CE called first, then G and E, then S and S, then B and R. Apart from restoring some value to the tiers it would also discourage the hugely disruptive early queuing which causes chaos in the departure lounge, as people trying to disembark in incoming LHR flight and people trying get to other flights are blocked.
Oct 28, 2017, 4:42 am
#435
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Of course. Nobody is doubting that.
My point was that the BA out station staff should be managing it better than they are. Given the high load of Bronze and Silver card holders, why is boarding not conducted in a more sensible manner with CE called first, then G and E, then S and S, then B and R. Apart from restoring some value to the tiers it would also discourage the hugely disruptive early queuing which causes chaos in the departure lounge, as people trying to disembark in incoming LHR flight and people trying get to other flights are blocked.
My point was that the BA out station staff should be managing it better than they are. Given the high load of Bronze and Silver card holders, why is boarding not conducted in a more sensible manner with CE called first, then G and E, then S and S, then B and R. Apart from restoring some value to the tiers it would also discourage the hugely disruptive early queuing which causes chaos in the departure lounge, as people trying to disembark in incoming LHR flight and people trying get to other flights are blocked.
It is especially annoying that the BA queues in the D pier can block the main concourse areas when passengers are trying to get to other gates, and have to dance around/in between the BA lines.