United Airlines has published new rules for boarding flights. VIDEO

United Airlines has decided to make changes to the usual rules for boarding the flight, explaining them with numerous requests from passengers. Everyone wants to go through the line faster, find themselves in their places and experience less stress due to the landing process itself. New turned out to be something like a well-forgotten old.

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Starting on Tuesday, September 18, United will reduce the number of flows passing into the gate from five to two, as it was before 2010, writes SF Gate. Line one will be marked with a blue sign and will be reserved for priority boarding, while line two will be reserved primarily for economy class travelers and will be marked with a green sign.

In June, the company began testing the concept at selected airports, including transportation hubs in Los Angeles, Chicago and Houston. On Tuesday, United Airlines will begin to introduce new rules throughout the country, updated and approved. At the airport of San Francisco, a new procedure has been used on some of the gates for several months.

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Green and blue streams will be divided into several groups. 1 and 2 group The blue priority stream typically includes frequent fliers with elite MileagePlus status, single United cardholders and those traveling in first or business class. They will be able to take their turn and wait for the gate to open.

The third to fifth group in the green - secondary - stream will have to remain in their places, waiting until they are called to board in the second turn. Traveling to 3 and 4 groupsAs a rule, these are economy class passengers. Travelers group 5 — those who bought basic economy tickets or last-day tickets at the lowest price.

Signs on the gates will also change. The display shows the number of the group that is currently landing, the line in which the passenger of this group needs to stand, as well as the numbers of the groups that are located next to the counter.

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The new version of the application, United Airlines will send push-notifications to travelers, informing them about the beginning of the landing. This is a pleasant opportunity for late ones, as well as for those who want to spend as much time as possible in the airline’s liner.

The streamlined process should address some of the complaints many travelers have raised about the current five-lane boarding, which was implemented in 2012, the carrier said. It is not at all uncommon to see queues of hundreds of people standing in front of the gate an hour before departure time.

Along with changes in the landing rules, the airline will change the destination of the onboard groups so that some elite and often flying customers come on board earlier than this happens now.

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Passengers with status MileagePlus Premier 1K (the highest level of frequent flyer program available to United travelers) can now prepare to board before the first flight begins. Advantage is also given to families, people who need more time to settle, all active military (not just those in uniform as before), and Global Services members by invitation.

United Airlines passengers with status Premier Gold will board in the first stream - in the second category. The airline said the move would "balance" the number of people in each group. The second group is usually the largest of the five possible

Members of the gold status have long expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that they are being sent to the second group, and demanded the priority landing, which United MileagePlus cardholders have, which may not fly the required miles annually. Landing priority for members Premier silver, the lowest level in the MileagePlus program, will remain second in the queue.

Here is a video provided by United to explain the new process:

If all this sounds familiar to people who flew United or Continental Airlines before the 2010 merger, you didn't. For years, both airlines have offered dual-stream landing options. Frequent flyers boarded first through the VIP queue, followed by economy class passengers in seat order - those sitting near the windows, then in the middle, and finally in the aisles.

United had a red carpet on which elite passengers passed. The Continental EliteAccess track was marked with a blue carpet. Carpets disappeared after the merger, and are unlikely to return with changes in the rules of landing.

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