Originally Posted by
drew870mitchell
I wish they would do boarding zones by the position you sit on in your row, i.e., windows get Zone 2A, then middles 2B, aisles 2C. I wonder how much time everyone cumulatively waits when a window seat gets to their row and the two already sitting in their way have to lumber themselves up and around so they can get in.
This has been shown in experiments not to be faster than the current method. People getting up and letting people in just clears the backlog ahead of them and has little effect on overall boarding time The actual fastest configurations were found, too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-14717695
I tell a porky: the window/middle/aisle is faster then current... just not the most efficient.