Originally Posted by NYCommuter

My pet peeve is slowpokes, and when I am getting off a plane, it seems like the fastest way for everyone to get off the plane would be for people who already are standing in the aisle to get off first. Then people who sit there when the seatbelt sign goes off could get off (although if there is a break in the line of people who were standing first and are getting off, someone sitting there should be able to get up and get off then).

Isn't this a better system than the current one, in which planes disembark row by row, and someone who is already standing in the aisle behind a row will wait for someone sitting in a window seat in that row, playing with a phone, to get up, get luggage and get off?

Or people in aisle seats could get off first, then middles, then windows.

Since airlines no longer board row-by-row, to save time, it seems as though disembarking also is most efficient if not done row-by-row.

Thoughts? I'm expecting to get called all sorts of names for this proposal, but so be it. I have learned from FT that you just have to wait for the rows in front of you to get off before you can, and I now do that, although I think it's inefficient.