is everybody Sky Priority?
 

literally in sky priority line for check in at PVG... over 30 minutes line.... how is everyone on flight business or sky priority?

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Obscure2k
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Theorem. All passengers are Sky Priority.

Proof by induction. Let the inductive hypothesis P(n) be that in every set of n >= 1 passengers, all are Sky Priority.

Base case. P(1) is true because OP has Sky Priority.

Inductive step. Assume P(n) is true for some n >= 1. Consider a set of n+1 passengers:

p_1, p_2, ..., p_n, p_{n+1}

By assumption, the first n passengers (p_1, ..., p_n) are Sky Priority. Also by assumption, the last n passengers (p_2, ..., p_n, p_{n+1}) are Sky Priority. Therefore, all n+1 passengers (p_1, ..., p_{n+1}) are Sky Priority. QED ;)

Glad I wasn't drinking anything because that made me laugh. Well done fellow math geek!

Big chuckle here too. I guess we math majors are an odd lot. Or at least not even.

Yes. Everyone.

^ @davie355's smart. I went to high school with him.

Flying out of SIN, security screening is at the gate. I often get in the regular line because it could be much shorter than Sky Priority. It seems like more than half the plane is Sky Priority.

Things like this make me happy I have GE and CLEAR :D

Neither of which would help you with the gate screening at SIN :D

Which makes me even happier that I rarely travel internationally. :D
(The $15 was still worth it though)

SKY is any Gold or above Delta member. "Sky Elite" or whatever they call it. So someone flying internationally 2-3 times a year would likely access that level. So the line is pretty long sometimes.

Sky Boarding is 3/4 of the plane in/out of Madison. :)

In part it depends on the airport the plane is going from/to, and in part it depends on the day of the week. Certainly there are days when it does seem like a large portion of the plane is Sky Priority.

Its also China... pax frequently ignore the signs.