On the basis of my last three Easy flights from Luton, it would seem there is a very simple way to get on the plane in the first wave regardless of your boarding card number and without paying the extra £10. Cheat.
Before I am flamed, I haven’t done this but…. once you have had your boarding card checked, there is nothing to stop you joining either the 1 to 30 queue or the 30 to 60 or whatever. There is no one there to police the system to prevent queue jumping – it’s all down to passenger honesty.
And on the subject of humorous PAs. On a recent flight into Luton everyone was very entertained (even my grumpy travelling companion) by a flight attendant who had transformed the usual ‘don’t smoke in the toilets’ spiel into a stand-up routine.
It worked (a) because she was funny, (b) because the whole thing was delivered with genuine comic timing and (c) because she knew how to use a microphone properly.
Its where (a) + (b) + (C) aren't present that it becomes a bit painful.
However, on this flight because what was being said had clearly been thought out beforehand, and because everyone could clearly hear what was said – it was a better and more memorable set of safety announcements than you usually get.