RowUnderDCA said:I think one of the advantages to 'zone boarding' has got to be its flexibility and adaptability...
The systems could, for instance, notice that a flight has 10 CPs and 20 GPs and 40 SPs on it and break the zones accordingly. This might help to reduce the number of incidents where gate agents declare that they're abandoning pre-boarding because "everyone" is preferred.
It would help if the public announcement of this included sufficient weasel words to preserve that flexibility rather than something that garantees zone1 to golds or something. CP, of course, should always be in the first boarding group B)