With so many offers and promises being dangled by the airlines for membership purchases, credit cards, mileage status, and upgrades, promising priority boarding among other things, this boondoggle will end up being watered down as most passengers cannot all be "priority boarded". Airlines are stretching the limits of their capabilities with promises that they cannot keep to their most loyal travelers by continuously adding new groups of travelers and even non traditional travelers to compete for a fixed number of amenities. On a recent flight, about half the plane was eligible for priority boarding when the "Explorer" card holders were called along with the elite mileage holders, and military personnel in uniform among other eligible groups. We might get to a saturation point if we are not there already.
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