For your specific example, once the door is open, its never taken me more than 2 minutes to deplane from a turbo prop in ROC. ROC is usually a start or stop of a trip, not many connecting flights. How much of a rush are you in?

How many people did you run over? Also being in the first row doesn't really count. It takes MUCH longer than 2minutes to get off of the plane once youre at the gate at ROC.

I didn't run over anyone and I was not in the front rows. The turbo props and RJ's tend to unload very quickly in ROC once the door is opened.

The OP still hasn't responded as to how people in middle and window seats are supposed to get out, since they can't possibly be "in line" and facing forward with all bags at the same time as aisle passengers. This was a bad and pointless rant.

I think that's a great idea... As long as those with status can register their "firsts", "seconds", etc in advance.

Nope, not in the slightest.

What has "status" got to do with anything in the context of your message, please?

Since everyone in the aisle is already ready to get out, it wouldn't be that long of a wait.

Well, no, it isn't always true that everyone in the aisle is already ready to get out. Sometimes they have been unable to retrieve all their overhead luggage because of other people's bags, sometimes they want to help their fellow passenger, or their child, to get up and ready, and so on. Sometimes they're just plain disorganised.

But I think the bottom line really is that getting out of a plane can't always be done in any strict order, and everyone has to exercise patience and a little "give and take".

detrain. intransitive verb: to get off a railroad train.

First Known Use of DETRAIN: 1881

(Merriam-Webster)

I can't believe you actually think deboarding should work any other way besides front-to-back. I'm just stunned. It's like we live on two different planets. :-)

Only if you pay a fee!

What happens when the middles and windows then follow and keep joining the line? The guy in 1A is supposed to be the last one off the plane?

Its pretty simple, if you want off the plane quickly, sit up front.

They way I read this is you think that (for the most part) the plane should empty out aisle first (front to back) then middle seats (front to back) then window seats (front to back). Is that correct?

Deplane? Proper English would refer to this activity as "disembarking".

Nevertheless, don't agree with the OP either. Disembarkation should occur on seat row basis, from front to the rear. I absolutely despise people that push their way out of the back into me when I'm clearly ahead of them.

"Disembark"? "Proper English"?

Well, last I looked, a "bark"/barq was a ship or boat during the period when the "___barks" came into common usage (and to top it off, "disembark" was one of those Victorian "overloads" for which the shorter, simpler, equally descriptive but less used in modern times "debark" functions adequately, shorter to write, easier to say. If you want to insist on "disembark" to clarify that you weren't born aboard the vessel, but "embarked" at some previous moment in time, fine.

"Deplane" and "emplane" are both concise, clear and meaningful, conveying the mode of travel, words from the same stem as "airplane" or the old Brit "aeroplane", a vehicle lifted into the air upon a wing, the "plane", "airship" being reserved in usage of the period to powered balloons/dirigibles (a grand word applied to rigid frame inflatables!). Aircraft (There's another!") came along recently enough that we've managed to suppress "Disemplane".

Among the he grandest assets of the English language, apparently adopted from Anglo Saxon roots, yet unhesitatingly adopting Latin/Romance terms, is the simple maxim, "Form follows function". While we don't subscribe to the Germans' propensity of combining multiple words into a single specific occupying an entire line of print, "Kampfpanzerwagen" and the like, we are quick to go with shorter descriptive combos, "chopsticks" or even "sporks"