districtRich
Service Attendant
They've added priority boarding at WAS now. They took out most of the seats in the gate areas and added some queues with a special priority boarding lane at each gate. Each gate area has a queue for general boarding, and then there is a special lane for priority boarding.
Priority boarding is for Select Plus and higher, sleeping car passengers, Acela first, business on non-Acela trains, uniformed military, families with children, and special assistance. The general boarding line still snakes out of the gate area and down the hall usually, and some of the priority passengers can board from the Acela lounge anyway, but it's nice to see them having a special lane so some people don't have to push to the front of general boarding which was such a mess before.
I don't know where they expect most people to sit now though. They still don't have much seating in the main hall. I guess they want people to wander around and shop or eat before boarding.
Priority boarding is for Select Plus and higher, sleeping car passengers, Acela first, business on non-Acela trains, uniformed military, families with children, and special assistance. The general boarding line still snakes out of the gate area and down the hall usually, and some of the priority passengers can board from the Acela lounge anyway, but it's nice to see them having a special lane so some people don't have to push to the front of general boarding which was such a mess before.
I don't know where they expect most people to sit now though. They still don't have much seating in the main hall. I guess they want people to wander around and shop or eat before boarding.