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Old Nov 28, 2024 | 5:23 pm
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Originally Posted by LarryJ
Airline boarding procedures are not designed to maximize efficiency. Efficiency is one of the priorities but it is not the top priority.
Agreed. The difficulty of explaining complex boarding schemes to passengers, enforcing them, dealing with families in different rows that understandably want to board together, and human factors like those would totally swamp the marginal time savings of a theoretically more efficient procedure. People aren't as predictable, and don't behave as consistently, as bits in a simulation.
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