AAnother airline wakes up to priority facilities
Sep 29, 2008, 1:31 pm
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AAnother airline wakes up to priority facilities
Generating a fair bit of chatter over on AAnother board:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=868080
Here's what the Thunderer had to say about it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tra...cle4834498.ece
It's to be celebrated that AA is attempting to introduce a more uniform approach to priority services, though before anyone gets too excited:
On a related note, interesting to note VS getting press out of cutting its minimum check-in time at LHR T3 to 40 mins:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tra...cle4834545.ece
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=868080
Here's what the Thunderer had to say about it:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tra...cle4834498.ece
It's to be celebrated that AA is attempting to introduce a more uniform approach to priority services, though before anyone gets too excited:
- Use of J / F check-in desks has always been a benefit for OW Emerald / Sapphire
- Fast Track departures security has been a feature of some US airports - for those eligible to use it - for some time; though good to see it (potentially?) being extended to others; Fast Track immigration on arrival - now there's an idea. It has to be said ZRH has organised brilliantly: travel with a J/C/F BP and you get to use the fast lane' unlike the confusing arrangements at most other airports which tend to be restricted to participating carriers.
- Priority boarding has always existed, though curiously up to this point AA has organised this by boarding groups, making it akin to a charter flight service
On a related note, interesting to note VS getting press out of cutting its minimum check-in time at LHR T3 to 40 mins:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tra...cle4834545.ece
