I think you are gonna see a lot more passengers board early under the guise of passengers who need a little more time .A little limping goes a long way .Not looking forward to my first flight under the new system, and I'm mosaic and with a fractured ankle/leg to boot

Pun presumably not intended or?

Cast just off 4 weeks after surgery and wearing the boot

But I loved JetBlue's boarding the way it was already :( It was pretty quick and back-to-front was just great, made sitting in the back awesome for carry-ons. I guess I gotta stick to windows now...

Were you both on the same PNR?

I am sure of it :) , this coming from someone who deals with DL's "efficient" boarding process all the time. :)

On a separate note expect people to board out of zones and large clusters at the gate.

On a positive note it could be worse, this could be AA who still has NINE separate boarding zones.

After pulling a few strings, I have found a few bits of info that might be useful here.

1. Companions, even if they are on the same PNR, receive boarding groups based on seats, so if Pax 1 has a window seat in the rear, Pax 1 will get Group B. If Pax 2 is in a middle seat next to Pax 1, Pax 2 will get Group C.

2. GAs have discretion as to whether to board people traveling together in the earlier boarding group.

3. Each seat is hard coded with a respective boarding group at this time, although that is subject to change.

That contradicts what you are saying, however. Pax 2 would be in a different group no?

IME most other airline let’s you bring up to a certain amount of people with you when they are in a lower group. I would bet this happens in the future for JB, as it makes no sense to break up companions. If I’m mosaic and my companion isn’t, there’s no reason they should be allowed to board with me...

Yes

Actually it doesn't make sense to let people board together from different groups under this scheme. If B6 sticks with the new boarding scheme, where each seat is in a clearly defined group, I do not see this happening. As of now, I've heard agents are doing a great job stopping people from boarding outside of their groups.

Sorry, typo!

Really? Personally, I can't stand B6 but I had to fly with them recently. I was in boarding zone D. I boarded no worries with A&B.

The scanner doesn't check the boarding zone, and the staff member has no ability to check the zone other than to check my boarding pass (at least not immediately).

I do this all the time on BA/VA/DL without any objection or issues. Norwegian are the only ones at LGW I've seen who enforce these silly boarding zones (yes, I know UA do, but I refuse to patronise them).

So I've had round trips to Syracuse and Las Vegas in the past week. 3 different airports and 2 different plane types.

I had some extra time before my flight to SYR so I watched an A320 board at the next gate. It went like this.
1. Disabled/Extra Time
2. Mosaic
3. Kids under 2/Military
4. Group A
5. Group B
6. Group C
7. Group D
8. Group E

There were 2 GAs scanning passes and a 3rd one standing further back in the line checking boarding groups.

Throughout the process, every time a group was called, the GA would mention that all previous groups could also board.(i.e. Groups A, B and C can now board)

I've noticed that they are saying "Disabled" or "Anyone with a disability" rather than "anyone needing extra time". One GA did say both but I'm thinking that may have been out of habit.

On the E190 flight, they made the usual announcement about needing people to gate check bags. Not sure if any did it but as is the case many times, the bins were actually mostly empty. So I'm convinced this is standard GA procedure at this point regardless of the flight load.

I don't ever want to lose my Mosaic status because this seems like a big mess. If the rows were so confusing, then just rename each section of rows with a group number so that parties traveling together can board together.

EMS = 2a?

This is all explained on JetBlue’s website. I think it’s moronic and going to cause a host of unnecessary gate fights, but at least they explain it all

http://mobile.jetblue.com/mt/help.jetblue.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/webcgi.exe?New,Kb=askBlue,case=obj(381591)


Will families or multiple customers traveling together be split up with this new boarding process? As long as you’re on the same reservation and check in together, parties traveling together will be prioritized into the earliest boarding group assigned to that party on the same reservation. If you check in separately, you may be assigned different boarding groups, even if you’re on the same reservation. In this scenario, you are welcome to board in the group you are each assigned, or if you’d prefer to board together, you may board with the latter of the assigned groups in your party.