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Why stand in line to board an airplane? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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The seats are assigned. People have been standing in line for 15 minutes now. Why on earth would anyone want to stand there, when they could just sit and wait until the line clears?

I understand wanting to get off a plane ASAP, but boarding? You just end up sitting on the plane, waiting for everyone else to get on.

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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

And methods have been worked out to load passengers smoothly and efficiently. Alternate sides, every other row, if I recall correctly, leaves plenty of space and time. But nobody uses this.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    these methods don't account for all the variables that reality has. People across all boarding groups will be late, there will be people that need assistance from flight attendants, there will be people who want to switch seats to be near their family, there will be people who can't sit in the exit row, there will be people who need to use the rest room, there will be people who've never been on a plane before.

    There is no great, full proof way to handle it because people are unpredictable

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    “The plane is here, everyone get on” (random order) is actually faster than the method they use now, so it wouldn’t take some complex system to increase speeds.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's essentially what Southwest Airlines does. No assigned seats, just a boarding group and number for "controlled" self-service boarding.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Too bad you end up in a Southwest plane after all that. I flew them once, in the extra room seat (I’m a tall bastard) and there has apparently been 600 lb life people using the seat before, it was like sitting on an old wicker chair that had blown out.

    One of the worst flights I’ve had.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    No the most recent conclusion is random works best if the participants are "normal". Any strategy about this seat or that row first requires trained participants to maximize that effort.

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