Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

Post by kortilla » Sat, Jan 25, 2020, 2:38 AM UTC

sjg007 wrote: post #289

kortilla wrote: post #266

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No, you missed the point. Speeding up deplaning won’t help much because of all of the things happening below the passenger deck (unloading baggage, unloading packages, emptying sewage, etc.) and in the cockpit (debrief). Getting passengers off quickly won’t help speed up the general post-flight process much. It’s very rare that the bottleneck is waiting for the cabin to be cleaned.

Some of the deplaners hold up the next flight they need to board. Airlines could optimize that.

Not really. Airlines can’t make the layovers tighter because the issue is variance in delays, not problems deplaning.

Also, the US airlines will not hold a flight due to a delayed inbound unless it’s got a shitload of the passengers. I’ve seen Delta depart on time and cause 10 passengers on a delayed flight to miss by only 15 minutes.

Post by magduf » Mon, Jan 27, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

sib wrote: post #510

magduf wrote: post #509

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>fact that the price paid by the person in 17C (aisle) can be quite different from that paid by the person in 17D (also aisle). The original claim was "We do row-by-row because, generally, people with higher status and/or fares sit closer to the front". Everything you've written does not support this claim at all. Maybe you should learn something about reading comprehension.

Nice try. You wrote: "The fares are exactly the same in the entire section of the cabin" Which is simply put, completely false. My response was: "The fares (on most airlines) are absolutely not the same throughout an entire section"... Maybe you should learn something about logic and argumentation.

My claim was correct. At any point in time, the fares ARE exactly the same. If you don't believe that, then you're a moron because you're flat out wrong. I can't put it any nicer than that. When you buy a ticket, the price for seats 37A and 38B are exactly the same. Full stop. Again, if you don't believe this, you're stupid.

Are tickets differently priced at different times? Yes. Any idiot knows this: the airlines change prices over time to extract more money from last-minute buyers. This isn't what I was talking about, and it's obvious that's not what I was talking about, so if that's the basis of your argument, then you're a pedantic asshole.

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