priority

Those of you that have travelled on the european cheapo airline easyjet will be well aware that they operate a strict priority boarding system. At least that's what they tell you.

This evening I flew with easyjet from Munich to Basel and I was in boarding group B yet I was the 12th person on the fully booked plane. Incidentally, B meant not that I was in the 2nd boarding group, but the 4th. First are the people that pay extra to board early, second are parents with small children (a rule that seems to be open to interpretation given the teenagers that board with their parents under this scheme), third are A, and fourth B etc.

So how come I was 12th on the plane? On this particular journey the boarding did indeed proceed by priority, except we weren't boarding the plane. We boarded a bus that took us to the plane. Muppets.