Originally Posted by
rwsteelers
More often than not the choke point in the boarding process is not scanning your BP, but rather the ramp and aisle once you are on board and looking for overhead space (all those oversize rollers). I doubt this process has any measurable impact on overall boarding time.
The person in row 2 who stops, sets his personal item on the seat, puts his bag in the overhead, takes his coat off, folds it neatly, puts it in the overhead, opens his personal bag and takes out headset, paper, etc. ...then finally steps out of the aisle and into his seat - all done at a leisurely pace. Turns out to be my seatmate, has the nerve to comment later on the golden days of flying when 'people weren't in such a rush all the time, life was conducted at a more civilized pace'. Um, yeah, the aisles were wider and the hips were narrower back in those good old days...
Pro-active FAs definitely help here - tactful ways of saying 'please step out of the aisle - yes, Mr./Ms. DYKWIA, this also means you'.