if you can't sit confortably in a normal seat, you should definately buy Speedy Boarding.
Yes, well, you don't have to board with the rest of us!
Just been on 2 return trips to Germany this week; same thing each time.
Ground staff call pax forward far too early so as to make sure everyone's ready for a quick turnround, total scrum, idiots who've paid for PB unable to get throuigh the crowd.
Last night was a classic; flight late, boarding called 15 minutes before aircraft taxied up to the gate, tightly-packed mass of unco-operative people who have been messed about a little too far.
Eventually ground handling lady who needs a charm course starts the routine and a few plucky souls fight their way through the crowd waving their PB cards, then she screeches for "Group A".
The unseemly Group B riffraff, who have pushed to the front as they always do, now try to go through anyway, only to be ordered to wait to one side at the top of the bridge. Eventually they form a solid block preventing any further boarding, so the Gauleiterin orders them to go back behind the politely waiting, better behaved Group A people. But the Group A people won't move back to allow this to happen, even though the handling agent from hell tells them to do that.
Impasse. It took at least 30 minutes to compete boarding, so that we enjoyed a very high speed taxi to escape curfews, or so the pilot said.
This sort of scene is typical on most EZY flights I've been on in since they were introduced, and that's a good many flights from a good many airports. I'm not complaining, I don't pay for the PB scam. The best of all is when people pay to be first on the bus and last on the aircraft, and we all know at which airports to get through the gate last.
We pay stupidly low prices for a crap service, just like Ryanair, and get exactly what we pay for. I don't mind; it's only an hour or two purgatory with an Ipod and a book, and then you're there.