What a hoot!
You're a valued customer, the airline whacks a Fast Track sticker on your boarding pass, you go through the Fast Track lane and....
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GET SENT TO THE BACK OF THE SLOW TRACK QUEUE
Can someone please help me understand the perceived benefit of all this?
The dead-head LH crew behind me was equally mystified. I told the boy of a captain that it's a new procedure since Gordon Brown's been PM - going back to socialist/class principles and stuff like that.
I think he believed me for a minute..
And while I'm at it: does MAN Airport REALLY think they have no customers from outside the UK? Their website feedback form requires a UK address...