Priority boarding is a recipe for even more complaints and arguments on the quay.

At peak times, there are already insufficient lanes for ‘normal’ traffic. Where would the priority lane go?

In any case, MPs (and ministers, of course), police cars and ambulances, magistrates, bishops and all Gozo Channel directors and employees, etc. already have priority boarding.

So what’s the point increasing the list and decreasing the available space on the ferry? Only certain trips operated in the morning are that busy.

Gozo Channel must improve the service and customer friendliness... and an extra ferry here and there will remove the need for priority boarding.

Priority boarding will not improve the service. The service will be improved by better management of the available resources and not by making it more complicated.

Extending the priority boarding loop will lead to further problems for the regular commuter, especially Gozitans, and that, of course, includes students.

And, please, don’t bring politics into it. The less politics in such matters the better. Otherwise, it means that only political parties have an opinion about these things and then everybody pulls to one side of the divide.

The system in time will lead to abuse. If it’s good for those who need to cross because of a very important appointment or going to catch a plane, well and good, but, in reality, anybody who is ready to pay the extra bit can use the system. No justification is needed for booking, so are those who really need it going to be given priority over all the others?

Or is it on a first-come, first-served basis?

Still, my aim is to be constructive. I believe that we should give it a try and then review the situation after the summer.