What is 'priority' worth to you?

[WilsonM]

All interesting and valuable comments, thanks everyone!

I guess for me, it depends very much on the flight itself - I would 100% pay for priority boarding on a low cost carrier, as overhead space is at a premium and being able to travel with just a carry-on (and subsequently leave the airport ASAP) is valuable to me. Priority boarding on full-service is worth less to me IMO, but the amusing catch is that you pay more for it (either by paying in advance or by spending cash to get status).

Cathay narrow body seats departing from MEL come in close second (felt I was squished in a can of sardines for 8 hours)

What aircraft was this on, and when? I never knew CX to fly narrowbodies except for really short intra-Asia flights, so you've piqued my curiosity!

And whereas I’d previously paid for ‘meet and greet’ at Bali airport, is that’s been discontinued, the ‘e-visa’ line is apparently just as quick. So I’ll be doing that next time.

Did this a few days ago - it's a bit misleading, but you skip past the VOA payment queues and just roll up to the e-gates. It's super fast, and some people who do it online queue up anyway.

Priority check in at SYD/MEL can be nice Int'l during busy flying QF period but is nothing like sky priority for MU where theres 200+ chinese economy flyers who all have maxed luggage and comes 4hrs early to the airport. That saves you a lot of time in line.

Flew QR out of MNL, and had the exact same experience as what you described re. MU. They flew their 24-Qsuite 777, so about 380 Y seats, and most passengers had boxes or multiple bags. Was flying J anyway, but was so so glad for priority then!

 

[jokes128]

What aircraft was this on, and when? I never knew CX to fly narrowbodies except for really short intra-Asia flights, so you've piqued my curiosity!

I guess they mean the narrow seats on the CX 777 that has a configuration of 3-4-3 in economy, rather than a narrow body jet with 1 aisle only.

 

[SOPOOR]

oh and sometimes for checkin, there is virtually zero people quueing up ( and no i dont get to the airport 7 hours early) so priority would mean nothing,, unfortunately

 

[trippin_the_rift]

$40 for priority everything -- and airlines wonder why people are less brand loyal today than ever before.

Make it $400 for priority everything and another $400 for lounge access.
Make it a giant advertisement for "FLY MORE -- EARN STATUS".
Those who want to pay -- will still pay.
Make legit status holders + biz/first pax feel good about the value in their status as they see non-status holders gotta pony up $400 for lounge access.

Cultivate brand loyalty instead of whoring the product out a fraction of what the true value to the traveller is.