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Mar 12, 2023 | 5:50 pm

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Originally Posted by WineCountryUA

This has been suggested many times and has been proven wrong in various studies, including the ever Myth Buster's popular https://www.businessinsider.com/myth...l-wrong-2014-9
Looks like the full show is subscription only , a trailer, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss1S3-Kv6R8
also try this https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8gu8lm (caution lots of ads)

another popular reference https://www.popularmechanics.com/sci...oarding-plane/
A google search will show multiple academic studies / methods. But seem back to front tends to always be the worst.

And most show any preference for status or boarding front to back, preform poorly

Interesting to see all the other schemes tested, although I didn't intend the above to be an absolute statement about most optimal (it does wind up reading that way I suppose).

Seems in these evaluations they don't test front to back though, which should be slower than back to front.