Originally Posted by
siankaan1
What I didn't follow was the claim that random boarding resulted in more overhead bin space:
In addition to shaving precious minutes off the boarding process, the randomized system also reduced the number of bags American had been checking at the gate by nearly 20% because more overhead bin space was available...
How could that be, unless more people put some under the seat in front, and why would they do that as a result of random boarding?
The only thing I can think (and this is just supposition) is that by
not having all the people from the same section of the plane show up at the same time, the packing efficiency in the bins is better. Maybe having the bags put into a particular bin over time, rather than all-at-once, results in people looking and putting things in "better" so that the space is better-used. Maybe.
Cheers.