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Oct 3, 2018, 8:05 am

#16

Tafflyer

Join Date: May 2012

Location: Munich, Algarve, Sussex or S.F Bay Area

Programs: Mucci, BA Gold, A3*Gold, AA Plat, HH Gold, IHG Plat Amb, Marriott Plat

Posts: 4,163

My recent experience (yesterday, T5 gate A20) is that they call group 1 to one agent and then a second agent takes passengers from the group 2 and 3 queue and lets them on in parallel. The result was that me being about 10th in line in the group 1 queue and sat in 1C had to store my bag above row 4 as I was about 25th on board.

Oct 3, 2018, 9:06 am

#17

eefor jfp

Join Date: Jul 2002

Location: coastal Croatia

Programs: BAEC Gold, M&M Senator

Posts: 2,181

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Originally Posted by Tafflyer

Boo. That's very poor form and, I would say, should be reported to BA management. Group one should be completed before group two is started. AA can manage this; why can't BA?

Oct 3, 2018, 9:47 am

#18

Tafflyer

Join Date: May 2012

Location: Munich, Algarve, Sussex or S.F Bay Area

Programs: Mucci, BA Gold, A3*Gold, AA Plat, HH Gold, IHG Plat Amb, Marriott Plat

Posts: 4,163

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Originally Posted by eefor jfp

Boo. That's very poor form and, I would say, should be reported to BA management. Group one should be completed before group two is started. AA can manage this; why can't BA?

Boarding has never been well policed by BA and contrary to the belief that status should give precedence, BA are solely interest in having the complete aircraft boarded as quickly as possible. Dividing into groups to avoid the scrum is obvious but anything they can do to complete the whole process more quickly will trump any passengers feeling of status superiority.

Oct 3, 2018, 5:49 pm

#19

djbenedict

Join Date: Oct 2015

Posts: 90

Quote:

Originally Posted by KARFA

if you were in first on a domestic AA flight you would be in group 1

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/...ng-process.jsp

I can confirm that practice follows theory in this regard (well it did for me last Saturday, anyway).

Oct 4, 2018, 2:19 am

#20

1Aturnleft

Join Date: Dec 2007

Posts: 3,595

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris9642

What happens to long haul boarding on a 3 class 777? Is Gold group 1 on their own or is group one CW + Gold (in the absence of First) ?

Group 1 was called all on its own on our LGW-ANU flight earlier this year. We appeared to be the only one's who stepped forward. Quickly followed by Group 2. No mention of group numbers and classes of service in the boarding message, everything was completely by boarding group.