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Load the goddamn plane by column, window seats to aisle seats, grouped by odd/even seat numbers and make people line up largest seat number to smallest. It takes an extra five minutes before you board the plane and saves you twenty or thirty. It wouldn't even cost you the five if it was the standard.
I'm with you generally. The whole boarding experience causes a tremendous amount of anxiety for me to the point that i'd rather drive for anywhere I can get to with a <16 hour drive.
MythBusters had an episode related to airplane boarding. If I remember right, the current scheme is the fastest, but it's due to the fact that everyone can't follow the rules.
That's the problem with society- all the damn people. *Shakes fist at cloud*.
you'd have to have family exceptions or something if they're in the same row. you wouldn't want a small child especially having to board at a different time from their family, but even just couples travelling together are probably better to board together.
airlines without assigned seats are probably the most optimal implementation of this
Ah yeah, true. Even with minor exceptions, I still feel like it could be done better. I'm just bitter because I had to take four different planes this week.
You're probably right in theory, but if you think making 100 random people accomplish that in 5 minutes is realistic, you're delusional.
What are you on about mate? No one suggested letting people organize themselves, you control by allowing the seats you want to load first. Airlines already load specific sections at a time.
If seats A and F are window seats just load that way and also load by zone, back of plane first makes most sense(depending if theres more than one door on the plane or not, most are at front because of how planes park at a gate)
They already know who is travelling together so they can choose to let whatever seats they want first. Like load an entire group if they are taking up a whole row.
Just seems like they do priority boarding as way to increase ticket price, but the actual boarding process often seems badly designed
I flew on an a380 recently. They actually used zoned boarding! The number of people who didn't seem to get that they wouldn't be allowed to board till their zone came up was amusing.
It saved a huge amount of time.
My planes had groups, but I don't think they were grouped by seat.
Or just load back to front?
Never go back to front.
Burn the heretic.
Yeah, good luck with that!
Preach