Annoying Gate Lice Clogging Priority AAcess Lane
Jan 22, 2012, 10:53 am
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Annoying Gate Lice Clogging Priority AAcess Lane
Boarding an AA flight from LAX yesterday morning. Two passengers (unrelated) go into the Priority AAcess lane and just stand there while general boarding is continuing. The gate agent announces, "We are currently boarding First Class and Executive Platinum." They continue to stand at the front of priority aacess without moving. Finally, I lean over and ask, "are you first class or executive platinum?" She tells me, "no, we're priority aacess." So, I have to walk around them to board.
It certainly is a little annoying.
It certainly is a little annoying.
Jan 22, 2012, 11:04 am
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Welcome to airports! 
Seriously, this has been the case for pretty much every flight I've boarded, ever. An authoritative "excuse me, please!" parts the crowd pretty much every time.
Seriously, this has been the case for pretty much every flight I've boarded, ever. An authoritative "excuse me, please!" parts the crowd pretty much every time.
Jan 22, 2012, 11:10 am
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Boarding an AA flight from LAX yesterday morning. Two passengers (unrelated) go into the Priority AAcess lane and just stand there while general boarding is continuing. The gate agent announces, "We are currently boarding First Class and Executive Platinum." They continue to stand at the front of priority aacess without moving. Finally, I lean over and ask, "are you first class or executive platinum?" She tells me, "no, we're priority aacess." So, I have to walk around them to board.
It certainly is a little annoying.
It certainly is a little annoying.
Jan 22, 2012, 11:14 am
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What's elite about it? The "general public" can purchase *Group 1 boarding* for a nominal price.
Last edited by Science Goy; Jan 22, 2012 at 1:51 pm Reason: fixed error, in asterisks
Jan 22, 2012, 1:23 pm
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Don't ever travel in Europe if this bothers you. The concept of priority boarding means everyone with a boarding pass bum-rushes the gate as soon as it looks like it will open. "We'd like to ask only the customers seated in the back of the aircraft to board first...". Yeah...right.
Jan 22, 2012, 1:26 pm
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Kind of reminds me of my experience about a year ago. We got to the gate a bit late, and there was a 100-yd. long general boarding line. So, we went to the empty priority access line, and one of the folks in the general line yelled, "Hey, there's a line here!" I responded back, "We're priority access." He said, "whatever that means."
I wanted to respond, "it means that we don't have to wait in lines." But I just stopped responding to him.
I wanted to respond, "it means that we don't have to wait in lines." But I just stopped responding to him.
Jan 22, 2012, 1:47 pm
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Jan 22, 2012, 3:27 pm
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Kind of reminds me of my experience about a year ago. We got to the gate a bit late, and there was a 100-yd. long general boarding line. So, we went to the empty priority access line, and one of the folks in the general line yelled, "Hey, there's a line here!" I responded back, "We're priority access." He said, "whatever that means."
I wanted to respond, "it means that we don't have to wait in lines." But I just stopped responding to him.
I wanted to respond, "it means that we don't have to wait in lines." But I just stopped responding to him.