corporate-wage-slave

I was on BA1338 LHR-NCL yesterday, which is popular with weekly commuters though it departs at 20:30 so a bit late for some. But it won't be as status rich as EDI. A320. It was late boarding (but still arrived early), with enforcement on priority boarding and I was in a position to count:
Total passengers 141
Club Europe 23
EuroTraveller 118
==
Group 1 = 37 = 26%
Group 2 = 6 = 4%
Group 3 = 4 = 2%
Total G1-G3 = 47 = 33%

So I would suggest that while the segregation was done here, it would not have made a fundamental difference is groups 1 to 3 were called together. This is a one flight anecdote, but that type of flight is not unusual.

gw76

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gw76

What will make them pay any more attention to that than current ‘please remain seated’ on main screens? Zero impact I might suggest.

Radiation Station

I didn’t realise there were so many Goldies travelling to our home airport! I wonder if it’s as status heavy on the NCL-LHR, I haven’t paid much attention.

When you say priority boarding was enforced, so you mean they called Group 1 first and turned people away if they didn’t have group 1 on their boarding pass?

SonicStar817

Well it depends on your definition of so many. You have to remember that anyone in CE gets Group 1 regardless of status unlike long haul CW which gets Group 2 regardless of First being present or not. In the example CWS provided there are 14 Golds in Y and it's reasonable to assume that not everyone in CE is Gold.

orbitmic

Well, actually, 14 OWE and/or people on the same PNRs as a OWE in Y, which is not quite the same thing!

SonicStar817

Sorry yes you are correct.

corporate-wage-slave

Actually it could easily be something like just 8 Golds in EuroTraveller and 6 spouses and other family members. Yes, there was someone at the front of the priority boarding channel announcing "Group 1 only" and holding up a single finger clearly about his head. What I thought was interesting is that if you were in this mega group you may assume "they can't all be Group 1", since you wouldn't have visibility of the large-ish CE cabin. Nor would you be aware that actually there was group 2 and 3 behind, with just a few people in them.

In fact I suspect those Group 1 members who must have foresaken 30 minutes lounge time in order to queue up well before boarding (and there was an announcement that boarding would be delayed due a late inbound), only to be part of a large boarding group, and see 22 people go in front of them pre-boarded in return for surrending overhead bags. But that's for the other Angst thread......

firstlight

Making CE group 2 would make my life a lot easier and would be logical as CW is group 2 even on aircraft that don't have first.

#controversial

Radiation Station

I thought CW was Group 1 on planes without first?

SonicStar817

Nope. CW is Group 2 whether the flight has First or not.

firstlight

don't think so, we're on a flight with at least 50j pax and there's about 8 group 1 and group 0 (us 😉 )

crazy8534

Fantastic data, thanks CWS.
And it does sort of put paid to the idea that many on here (and I include myself) should feel short-changed when they call groups 1-3 together.

It reminds me a little of the oft-quoted exchange:
"I'm in traffic"
"No, you ARE traffic".

S_W_S

As evidenced by getting Group 2 on the single class BA1 service years ago.

SaveECRewards

They had to give the golds some benefit on this route 😁