Every Airline should board planes like this.

[nlinecomputers]

http://gizmodo.com/5835850/every-air...g-time-in-half



Boarding a plane is a completely miserable, time-consuming experience. How often are you left waiting for that oversized man jam his oversized luggage into the undersized overhead compartment? Ridiculous! That's why every airline needs to try this new boarding method. It cuts the time in half.

Amazingly, it was invented by Dr. Jason Steffen, an astrophysicist in his day job but a man more adept at running airplanes than the airlines themselves. In his method, window seats on alternate rows on one side of the plane boards first. Then alternating window seats on the other side. Then alternating middle seats on the original side, then alternating middle seats on the other side. And then on and on and on until the plane is filled. Watch the video, you'll see a perfectly choreographed dance that maximizes aisle space and overhead compartments.

Steffen figured out this method using the Monte Carlo optimization method and promises that it can cut boarding time in half. It won't cure the ineptitude of airlines in other areas but it can make air travel less of a pain in the ass. Delta? United? American? JetBlue? Virgin America? Who's in?

[TStreetE]

Sadly, there would be a substantial number of passengers that would be too stupid or confused to figure out where they're supposed to sit.

[Spiral Ella]

Cool. One thing I thought of is that you'd have to "educate" families to be sure to send one parent in as the first "window seat" person in their group because you can't have a 7-year old find his own seat and stow his own bag in an overhead (if he had one). And of course, once everyone's on board, the parent could move over and put the kid in the window seat (at least that's always where I wanted to sit!!) and sit in the middle.

But other than that it's a really cool method.

[nlinecomputers]

Sadly, there would be a substantial number of passengers that would be too stupid or confused to figure out where they're supposed to sit.

Cool. One thing I thought of is that you'd have to "educate" families to be sure to send one parent in as the first "window seat" person in their group because you can't have a 7-year old find his own seat and stow his own bag in an overhead (if he had one). And of course, once everyone's on board, the parent could move over and put the kid in the window seat (at least that's always where I wanted to sit!!) and sit in the middle.

But other than that it's a really cool method.

The reply to both is watch the video. One guy does take a wrong seat but the added elbow room allows for that to be quickly fixed. And families with kids board first without any system just as they do now. Most passengers on most planes don't have kids with them so this isn't much of problem.

[Spiral Ella]

I did watch the video and I saw one kid who couldn't be more than 12 as one of the window seat boarders.