Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster, study finds

Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by sdoering on Thursday January 16, 2020 @12:26AM (#22061908)

I strongly despise people like that. If you add up lost time for all other passengers and compare that to won time for her and her family (less time waiting at the baggage claim) this ends up massively weighted against her behavior. non the less her behavior is actually rational and optimal from a standpoint of game theory. At least under current conditions (bag size not checked and enforced up front). This is in my books a classic example of 'tragedy of the commons'.

As long as egoistic behavior is the optimal strategy we will not see a significant change in behavior.

It can only be changed by changing the surrounding rules and conditions.

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by senordevnyc on Thursday January 16, 2020 @09:46AM (#22064957)

So you strongly despise someone for being a rational actor within a broken system?

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by HeWhoLurksLate on Thursday January 16, 2020 @10:15AM (#22065236)

My guess is that his dislike stems from the fact that this lady only made things better for herself and her family, and not GP, or anyone else on the flight.

If everyone can't do it (bringing more luggage than will fit above you) then doing that seem like you're doing it because you're better than everyone else, which is offensive to most people for good reason. If her whole family had flown first class, that'd be a different story. (They'd probably still be annoyed at the family for basically cancelling out some of the perks of paying extra for flights, though.)

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Re:Letting slower passengers board airplane first is faster,... by MauranKilom on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:35PM (#22068020)

Society doesn't operate only on rationality... https://xkcd.com/1499/

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