Originally Posted by
tracon
That's because passengers are bussed to the plane.
The best way to speed up boarding is the way it's done in SIN/CMB etc.
Scan the boarding pass, go into a holding pen. Within 30 minutes of departure, open the doors.
Of course our airports aren't set up for that.
Fortunately!
The securty-at-the-gate and the holding pen are great time wasters and very inconvenient. I rather battle during the boarding process.
As for the boarding time ... I never understood why populating a plane takes fractions of minutes in Oz and is such a struggle in the US, let alone Europe ...