A better way to board a plane

[cfd130]

Or as a comedian once said-when they announce the boarding of the plane all of the passengers act like it is the last plane out of Saigon-Hang tight folks they plane wont leave till everyone is on board LOL

 

[Flying-Corporal]

...boarding method that's SIX TIMES FASTER than the current method, or that management will probably completely ignore this scientific research!

I believe it says it's 1/6th faster, or 16% faster. Still, a 30 min boarding could be reduced to a 25 mins, saving 5 min on the ground.

It will work. Someone has to change computer systems to automatically assign zones using the new method. Even if some dumb pax makes a mistake it probably won't affect the overall efficiency.

It beats the stupid Southwest mad-dash-cattle-boarding process...

 

[Amish RakeFight]

There's always the last minute folks who belong scattered throughout. So they could easily put a dampen on this theoretical model of seating efficency.

Not everyone will conform to the seating calls. A lot of PAX hate sitting in their seat while on the ground, boarding.

 

[Mr Wu]

Probably the best idea to come from that whole article was the commenter that said people without carry on baggage should board last.

 

[Flying-Corporal]

I think it will make boarding even faster if airlines will start charging passengers for each bag they carry on board instead of for the ones the check-in.

 

[MJPilot]

I believe it says it's 1/6th faster, or 16% faster. Still, a 30 min boarding could be reduced to a 25 mins, saving 5 min on the ground.

Thats not quite correct. It says it will be done in 1/6th of time, which means boarding in 5 min versus 30 min.

(The simulations suggest that using something like the above protocol would reduce boarding time to 1/6th of that required by the standard procedure!)

 

[CA1900]

He never said it was an airplane with 120 seats, he said it was an airplane with 120 passengers.

OK, then -- so we've gone from bad math to a totally unrealistic assumption for his calculations. I'm not sure that that's any better.