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Waiting to get on an airplane sucks. Is it possible that there's a better way? The post "What's Up With That: Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever" appeared first on WIRED.
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Jason Steffen is an astrophysicist at Northwestern University, and several years ago he modeled different airline boarding methods to see what made them so slow.
Searching for "Jason Steffen" on Flyer Talk produces these threads, dating back to 2008....
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...lgorithms.html
(seems to have been the first mention, in Nature magazine 6.5 years ago)
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...g-process.html
(NPR report, 2008)
There are more, including...
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...er-planes.html
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/ameri...a-study-3.html