Originally Posted by
Jumper Jack
Which is why his solution is far from optimal, even considering the marginal benefit gained per extra dollar spent.The whole problem was due to lack of utilization at the start of boarding process.
Every second passes the queue gets longer while the flow rate is below capacity during zone 1&2.
Of course I approach this problem differently from Cow.
Oh come on. Zone 1 is normally quite quick. Road warriors.
And zone 2 is almost like "everyone else."
I continue claiming that the real issue that has made boarding slower is all that luggage that people bring on board nowadays. Not so much the change in priority.
In the past you had two zones, priority and non-priority. Adding zone 1 is an insignificant change. Dividing the other zones should not make that big of a difference, comparing with the luggage issue.
Anyway, there are now so many people in zone 2 that a separate zone 1 clearly is here to stay.
And since they sell "priority" to CC holders, latitude, etc., so is zone 2.