OFFICIAL: 1P and *AG get Priority Boarding thru the Economy Lane as of Nov 12
Jan 29, 2009, 9:35 pm
#226
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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On most of my flights recently, the GA has called "Premier Executive and Premier" after the 1K/UGS/FIRST group. Have others experienced this? With the execption of Premier Line pax, and possible 3Ps, nearly all of seating 1 is "Premier Executive or Premier." This makes the PR EXEC group essentially useless.
John
Last edited by takor; Jan 29, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Jan 29, 2009, 9:53 pm
#227
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Jan 29, 2009, 11:17 pm
#228
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: SFO
Programs: UA 1K
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Maybe UA needs to change the names. I was sitting next to a 1k, and I read his BP, which read, "premier exec 1k". I didn't see the 1k part and I thought he was prem exec. They should just do "premier," "executive", and "1k" to avoid this confusion.
Jan 29, 2009, 11:27 pm
#229
Join Date: Mar 2008
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I can't think of any flight from the change on where the agents didn't explicitly say 1P and *g first, and then boarding 1. This would include DEN mostly, with some MSY, ORD, IAD, SFO (I know mostly hubs), the only exception is SJD. But most employees at SJD are contract employees so "MP" is what the plane is after everyone gets off. No priority tags, no priority boarding, no nothin'...
So did you see his BP because is was on gold stock facing outward in his pocket. 
Last edited by iluv2fly; Jan 30, 2009 at 1:03 am
Feb 25, 2009, 5:55 pm
#230
Join Date: Aug 2003
Posts: 1,110
Going out of DFW on Friday a 1P was all queued up (quite eagerly so) on the red carpet
when they announced boarding starting for F/1K/GS he handed the GA his BP and she nicely told him not yet that...blah blah, then he replied: "I thought we could board with first class now?" she told him nope and pointed over to the blue carpet line which already had 50+ people in it (100% full flight) he promptly inserted himself at the front of that line, which seemed rather douchey to me but no one complained that I saw. I'm wondering if we arent going to see more of this for awhile until this change sets in.
when they announced boarding starting for F/1K/GS he handed the GA his BP and she nicely told him not yet that...blah blah, then he replied: "I thought we could board with first class now?" she told him nope and pointed over to the blue carpet line which already had 50+ people in it (100% full flight) he promptly inserted himself at the front of that line, which seemed rather douchey to me but no one complained that I saw. I'm wondering if we arent going to see more of this for awhile until this change sets in.
Feb 25, 2009, 7:14 pm
#231
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chicago
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This process isn't working at all for my weekly flights ORD-CLT-ORD. Every week both at ORD & CLT I see several Seating Area 1 BPs ... the GA will call 1P & *G and it's a standard SWA cattle call. The GAs never turn back the 2Ps and tell them to wait.
Feb 25, 2009, 9:59 pm
#232
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Then again, the OLCI boarding pass still shows the giant PR EXEC even when i'm upgraded to first or business.