FYI on early boarding, both yesterday and today's trip did...

Yesterday F9 1723 MKE-MCI
Summit, Ascent, and Plus passengers boarded first, then Stretch and other pre-boards were announced.

Today F9 1736 MCI-MKE (I'm using my air card onboard as we're boarding)
Thru pax from LAX were re-boarded first
Summit, Ascent and Plus were boarded next.

I agree. I've always been given the opportunity to board first as a Summit flyer.

Good to know, and thanks for posting. ^

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I just had a thought. Some of the oher airline fora have threads on devoted to boarding issues (both positive and negative) and these threads are especially useful following a merger, significant expansion or contraction at a particular station, when a new station has been added, when irregular ops are in play or for just reporting one-off incidents. Knowing what to expect in terms of airline policy vs. reality is the very reason FT exists. I can start such a thread if you like or feel free to initiate one with the info you've provided above.

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Good to see some contributions from you, ess. Hope to see more in the future.

Rumors have been around that MKE and DEN service were coming to GSO for quite some time...nothing has materialized yet. Perhaps these are part of Bedford's plans alluded to by the OP's article.

I think expensive airports are being looked at and evaluated right now for alternate ones.... If PIE works out I can see TPA being axed. The same may happen with CLE and CAK. As for Canada... I hear they want to attract more airlines and may lower their fees. I hope Frontier can go back to Canada, but I doubt YYZ will be one of them. 2011 should be interesting

mlasser could you clarify your statement. I don't think outlier was your intended choice of noun or you thought it meant something else. I am an outlier because I do live far away from my workplace as do most airline crew. Maybe you meant that my particular statistic value is outside other values in a set of data. I think the other posters have put you in that category instead of me. Or where you trying to say that I am somebody who works away from the main body? I work for the company. I get all memos. I work the operation even though I prefer the contract side. I even share FTers thoughts with management. I don't think that outlier is the word you want to use to describe me.

As for GSO I am hopeful that they will at least see a flight or two to MKE so those crews can have a chance to work more than USX and to allow for another MX station for rotation

I think we will see more Mexico before Canada. They are very short on capacity and competition right now.

FT is never been short of apologists for their mama airline. You read the memos. How nice for you. There are equivalents for you on every airline on FT, including the ones that year after year are polled to be the bottom of the barrel. Every airline has it's fans that will defend it to the point they believe it can do no wrong. I don't think F9 needs to worry about people like me who fly almost weekly. I've already booked my next three flights on your competition and from a discussion I had with an FA last week, I'm not the first or last to make that decision.

Yes, in boarding procedures, I see dozens, maybe hundreds of GA's do this a year. You basically know how you do it. That's a sample of one. Outlier was the correct description. One deviating from the mean in a statistically relevant fashion.

Denver has choices from bad to really bad. I'd love to have real international carriers here. UA is cancelling the UK flight which leave us one BA and I think 2 LH. Would love to have JetBlue and Virgin America for domestic. Even more CO domestic would be great. But we basically have Republic and United and Southwest. Really no winning solution.