The way we board airplanes

Re:The way we board airplanes by mynegation on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:37PM (#7649176)

This had been known for a while. Yet there are different considerations besides fastest boarding time. First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue which may be either uncomfortable or downright infuriating if you travel with young kids.

I can imagine that letting passengers take their seats at random results in pretty fragmented available seating so if you travel as a large group and want to seat together, this might be a problem too.

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Re:The way we board airplanes by furyofantares on Friday April 25, 2014 @06:11PM (#7649344)

I think you could still do columns -- just allow people to go out of order if they are going with someone that's going in order.

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Re:The way we board airplanes by jdcryans on Saturday April 26, 2014 @01:08PM (#7652054)

> First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue

You can order by column but still let families together, for example with United you can board with your group/family's lowest group number. This means a 1K with boarding group 1 can bring in his wife and kid (who are somewhere between 3 and 5 if they don't have status) on the plane all at the same time. This way you can fill up whole rows at once.

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