Originally Posted by
sbm12
Which isn't really all that different from the legacy carriers with F and elites.
Those tests also assume that all the passengers are in the boarding area when the gate opens, that they follow instructions, that bags are the right side, etc. There's enough variability in reality that I'm not so sure any of it matters.
Originally Posted by
WorldLux
Passengers are too chaotic to make the random boarding order work. If airlines wanted to speed up boarding, they would start by doing preboarding (have people queue in their respective block, gate check big items, scold the passengers that arrive with 8 carry-on) and give incentives to passengers to check their bags.
The chaos and the fact that pax don't do what they're told is precisely *why* random boarding worked in these tests.
If people are really well-coached, then an orderly process would work better.
150 Flyertalkers could load a 737 in five minutes if we had 1 hour to practice and enough incentive to care.
