What’s the point of boarding group 1?
Oct 1, 2021, 5:08 am
#46
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Oct 1, 2021, 5:10 am
#47
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Another thing that isn't done nearly enough is sending people back to the scrum if they try to board outside their group, whether this is done intentionally or not. Again, the segregated lines setup is useful for this because it trains people into understanding that there is a process to follow.
Oct 1, 2021, 5:42 am
#48
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Oct 1, 2021, 11:35 am
#50
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Actually I wasn't thinking of the EC tags...more about those little priority labels that get put on to the luggage at check in which seem to make no difference at all.
Oct 1, 2021, 11:38 am
#51
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our experience is that the orange tags don't make much difference but bags tagged with the yellow ones do seem to come out quicker..
Oct 1, 2021, 11:52 am
#52
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Oct 1, 2021, 12:21 pm
#53
Join Date: May 2015
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had a Stressfull situation at T5 yesterday on a TATL service.
Having been relatively socially distanced all through the airport, there was a complete scrum to the flight.
Group 1 was called, at which point half the departure hall got up and I was towards the back of the flight, some were turned away, but after 2 minutes (while I was still at the back of the line), group 2 was called in addition to group 1. I tried to edge forwards but was told by my fellow pax 'its groups 1 and 2'. So despite being gold, and getting up as soon as Group 1 was called, I was stuffed in the middle of Groups 2 and probably other odds and sods.
Unlike last time I travelled there was no separate 'priority emerald' line for boarding of later arriving Golds. I don't know why this has been done away with, but it is something I used regularly (especially in B gates if I made a kettle chip run to the lounge!).
Very disappointed by the boarding protocol at LHR and don't understand why the separate Gold line has been done away with.
Disembarking by row at New York was actually very good and civilised and safe.
Having been relatively socially distanced all through the airport, there was a complete scrum to the flight.
Group 1 was called, at which point half the departure hall got up and I was towards the back of the flight, some were turned away, but after 2 minutes (while I was still at the back of the line), group 2 was called in addition to group 1. I tried to edge forwards but was told by my fellow pax 'its groups 1 and 2'. So despite being gold, and getting up as soon as Group 1 was called, I was stuffed in the middle of Groups 2 and probably other odds and sods.
Unlike last time I travelled there was no separate 'priority emerald' line for boarding of later arriving Golds. I don't know why this has been done away with, but it is something I used regularly (especially in B gates if I made a kettle chip run to the lounge!).
Very disappointed by the boarding protocol at LHR and don't understand why the separate Gold line has been done away with.
Disembarking by row at New York was actually very good and civilised and safe.
Oct 1, 2021, 1:31 pm
#55
Join Date: Sep 2009
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My recent domestics from LHR have been Group 1 first followed a good few minutes later by Group 2. And at GLA I saw a rather downtrodden couple being challenged "You realise this is Group 1 boarding only at the moment?". And yes, they did, and yes, they were.
I think we'd all live that little bit longer if we tried travelling without wheelie bins. A squashable bag takes a whole lot of stress out of everything regardless of when you board or where you're sat on the transport.
I think we'd all live that little bit longer if we tried travelling without wheelie bins. A squashable bag takes a whole lot of stress out of everything regardless of when you board or where you're sat on the transport.
Oct 1, 2021, 1:34 pm
#56
Join Date: Nov 2012
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This is like being in Group 1 boarding with DL, which means as many as five groups board in front of you. Or the time my wife and I paid for early boarding on one of our rare WN flights to have our pick of seats on the plane, only to find the plane was (no joke) already 1/4 full.
Once you accept that it's all a scam, you'll stop expecting the airlines to act rationally.
Once you accept that it's all a scam, you'll stop expecting the airlines to act rationally.
And always a “Thank you for your business” at the boarding pass scan…..
Oct 1, 2021, 1:40 pm
#57
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EI also enforce their priority boarding. I was rather embarrassed at BHD to emerge from the lounge as I heard (vaguely in the distance, as announcements not made in the lounge) an announcement for pre-boarding. I emerged to find a full-on queue at gate 4 (usually BA gate with jet bridge). An agent was roaming and asking for anyone with priority boarding. I made myself known, only to be the only passenger marched past the glaring queue to the front!
Oct 2, 2021, 10:46 am
#58
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Sadly not for today's BA1487 down to Heathrow. After call for those with young children or needing assistance boarding, it was followed by a call for Groups 1, 2 and 3., which i believe covers Club Europe, Gold, Silver, Bronze and their OW equivalents (Emerald, Sapphire, Ruby). It was at least something though - the LGW-GLA flight earlier today had NO priority announcements at all - just suddenly they started scanning boarding passes and the queue moved. Consistently inconsistent :-).