Do come to the UK where both Easyjet and Ryanair do their turnrounds in 20-25 minutes all day long, and have done for years; Easy A319s have 156 seats, Ryanair's 737s have 189 seats.

Yes, and it rains here as well (of course ! ) and we have wheelchair pax here too. And there are a minimum number of groundcrew, who are usually handling agent staff rather than direct employees (even if they have been given the airline uniform to wear that day).

Incidentally, in the time it takes many airports to manoeuvre a jetbridge up to the aircraft, these two airlines have probably got most of the passengers off already.