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Post by onlymark on Aug 31, 2011 20:47:02 GMT
So then, tell me, what is the quickest way to board a plane load of passengers? (with one entry at the front) Like they do now? - those at the rear board first gradually working forward? Completely random like on some budget airlines that don't have a seat allocation? All window seats first then middle then aisle? A different way? What do you think? The Steffen method |
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Post by onlymark on Aug 31, 2011 20:48:16 GMT
Try Google if you don't know what it is.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2011 1:23:54 GMT
I haven't looked at the answer yet, but I have recently flown. They loaded the people in front first, which is dumb as all get-out. So, I would say the best way is to let the people in back on first, but you say it's already being done that way.
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Post by onlymark on Sept 1, 2011 6:27:10 GMT
I think usually they let people on from the back in blocks of about ten/twenty rows or so. The results, they hope, in a smaller amount of aisle blockages. But it's not always so.
It appears the main obstacle to quick boarding is the time when two people need to share the same space like putting bags in overhead lockers, or the aisle seat person having to get back into the aisle to let the window seat person get in etc.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2011 6:53:19 GMT
I looked up the Steffen Method, and I can think of one major problem with it -- people travelling together often never want to be separated during such a process, even for 5 minutes.
Try telling Mrs. 28B that she'll just have to wait in the departure lounge while Mr. 28A and the other A's are settling in.
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Post by rikita on Sept 2, 2011 15:17:47 GMT
yeah but people never go into the plane in the order they are called anyway. and some people spent about an hour on the aisle until they decide where exactly they want to put their bag, or looking for their seat because they can't count (or so it seems).
i always get to the line only when my row is being called - and the result is usually that i am the last one in the line, as everyone else already got up when first class and children were being called...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 17:23:44 GMT
Next time, be handicapped.
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Post by fumobici on Sept 2, 2011 19:32:23 GMT
I prefer whenever possible to be the last one to board. Less seat time.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 19:47:15 GMT
When you have an assigned seat and nothing to stow, that's fine. But when you are flying standby like me and often board last in the most undesirable seat in the aircraft (e.g. middle seat in a center section of 5), it can be pretty horrible, especially since one's seatmates have already decided that the seat would remain empty and have already spread out their stuff. It is much better when the plane is even fuller and I get bumped to first class.  It's always hell or heaven with no choice -- the total crapshoot. |
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Post by rikita on Sept 2, 2011 20:40:29 GMT
almost like the russian roulette of airplane seats?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2011 21:16:58 GMT
Except that I don't die. However, I have been stranded in certain places for three days sometimes.
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 3, 2011 4:35:45 GMT
How come you get bumped straight to first class instead of business class? Seems unfair to me.
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Post by rikita on Sept 3, 2011 19:42:19 GMT
for three days? how'd that happen?
i was once stranded in ankara for six hours, and that was enough - but there we weren't allowed to leave the plane, and they had only breakfast with them, which we got about the time we did our unscheduled landing in ankara - so by the time we finally arrived in brussels i was starved. they gave us vouchers there to eat while we waited for our connecting flights (we had of course missed the original ones), and we went to a fast food place and got lots of greasy food and even more desserts. i started feeling sick after about three bites and ended up throwing away most of it...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2011 19:55:46 GMT
How come you get bumped straight to first class instead of business class? Seems unfair to me. Life isn't alway fair, HW. Yes, sometimes I have been bumped just to business class. Rikita That's actually quite common if there is a strike or weather condition. Airline employees are not worth their weight in fuel for certain airlines (American Airlines, Cathay Pacific) and they can leave non-revenue passengers on the ground even if the plane is half empty if there is a strong headwind. Two cities where I have been stranded for three days merely because of overbooked flights are Montréal and Papeete. In both places, I did not mind staying more time, except for the need to spend useless hours at the airport waiting, and then returning to the hotel and checking in once again. Paying passengers don't experience this as much because regulations force the airlines to book them on a different airline as soon as possible, or pay for their accommodations and meals + compensatory indemnities. |
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Post by rikita on Sept 4, 2011 17:41:42 GMT
ah okay, you work for an airline? i didn't know that...
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Post by onlymark on Sept 4, 2011 18:26:34 GMT
He's the toilet cleaner.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 4, 2011 18:39:20 GMT
Frankly, that's the job I would have accepted to enter an airline back then (34 years ago).
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Post by hwinpp on Sept 5, 2011 7:16:31 GMT
I've never been upgraded! But I've upgraded myself with frequent flyer miles.
I've also never been delayed for long periods except once in China, I got a room in a nice hotel that time.
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