Originally Posted by
NotHamSarnie
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.
Not to mention, I doubt that the multitude of traveling groups (parent-child, H/W, just friends, or whatever) would want to split up to board, even if the window-middle-aisle method saved a few minutes.