Comments on Optimizing the world: Airplane boarding

now I see why you got that job at Google :)

2008-03-21T00:01:00.000-07:00

now I see why you got that job at Google :)

I don't disagree with you, it might very well be t...

2008-03-17T23:38:00.000-07:00

I don't disagree with you, it might very well be the unloading of cargo that is the bottleneck and if one has checked in luggage then one would trade waiting inside the plane vs waiting at the luggage carousel.

But what if I don't have checked in luggage and this is my final destination? Which is the case for most business travelers. I don't care about the cargo unloading time, I only want to get out of the plane.

But in the end, the airline companies don't have enough incentives to try to speed up the plane's "unboarding".

I agree, it does take too much time to exit an air...

2008-03-17T22:39:00.000-07:00

I agree, it does take too much time to exit an aircraft. Unfortunately for travellers, it's not the deplaning and planing of passengers that requires the most time, but the unloading and loading of cargo.

If the described case was indeed an aircraft turnaround time bottleneck, one can be sure that airlines would optimize the process as much as every other, by for example having flight attendants require aisle-seated passengers to do what you proposed.