Yes, and this also eliminates the need to have "priority boarding", which is really just a way of ensuring that the frequent traveller customers don't end up without overhead space for their bags.
What flights are you on that priority boarding fills all the bins?
I think brk was just saying that everyone in priority will have room for their bags. Without priority boarding, they would have to fight with everyone else.
I think the elder, people with disabilities, and families with small children would be the biggest losers here as they really need the right to priority boarding to avoid weird looks from the eventual self centered pricks that happen to be in the cabin.
Every airline I've flown always calls for "people who may need extra time boarding" or similar at about the same time as first class, before everyone else gets to board.
I speak from my experience flying in Europe, every airline that I've flew with boards first slower customers, business and the rest of the customers. I figured the US would be the same, wrong assumption.
US is similar - slow passengers (elderly, kids, etc), first class, business/priority, then the rest.