Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)

Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by TuringNYC on Monday February 10, 2025 @11:35PM (#43009009)

>> Also most airlines board people roughly front to back, when it should be the opposite

the problem with back to front is that people in the back would put their bags into overhead bins in the front, which they can easily pick up on the way out. However, you cant walk backwards for pickup, so the read overhead bins would be empty and inaccessible by the people boarding last.

I was a traveling consulting when people did such things. I got to see this silliness 2-3x/wk

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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by jakub_g on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:29AM (#43009996)

Never thought about this! I wouldn't imagine putting my bag somewhere not within my eyes reach. Maybe because I often travel with laptop.

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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by Someone on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:11AM (#43010274)

I don’t think they mean passengers in row 50 put their bags in row 30.

I think it’s just that your eyes’s reach trends towards the front of the plane. If it’s busy when you try to stow away your bag, chances are you will prefer putting it in a meter towards the front of the plane (where you’re standing anyways, waiting for the person before you to stow away their bag) over cramming it in above your head, where the other bags already are.

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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by Schiendelman on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @08:26AM (#43012468)

Oh, people in row 40 routinely put their bag in row 8 if they can, because it means they might not have to check their bag if the plane runs out of space.

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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by tomcam on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @02:39AM (#43010070)

I’ve been wondering about this for well over 4 decades. Never even thought of that possibility.

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Re:Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since ... by jghn on Wednesday February 12, 2025 @02:45PM (#43029009)

Honestly they need to crack down on overhead usage in general, and not just for this reason. The thing about air travel that always makes me angriest is how F'ing slow everything becomes because everyone is trying to jam 93 different huge bags in the overhead bin.

Incentivize people back towards checking their bags, the process would be more efficient all around.

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