Opinion on deplaning etiquette?
Mar 26, 2019, 9:41 pm
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Mar 27, 2019, 6:52 pm
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Well, I'm not going to make a scene and tell him off or anything. But a guy who's behind me needs to wait if his bag is couple rows up front. He's gonna get there without delay anyways as deplaning proceeds. Just because his bag is a few rows up, he gets to shove his way up forward and deplane earlier even though he's sitting behind me?
Apr 2, 2019, 2:42 pm
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In reality, the fastest way to empty a plane is the opposite of this. Everybody (who fits) stands in the aisle as soon as the seatbelt light goes off, and they get their stuff down. (If you can't, don't get in the aisle yet.) When the door opens, everybody in the aisle just walks off the plane without stopping. If you're still in a seat, when there's space next to you, step into the aisle, get your stuff down if necessary, and exit without stopping.
This method is almost twice as fast as the standard one. From the viewpoint of the doorway, at any given time there's either a person exiting or a gap. Gaps delay emptying. The idea of waiting for the person who happens to be seated ahead of you to slowly get into the aisle and get their stuff down seems designed to maximize gaps. The method in this post minimizes them.
This method is almost twice as fast as the standard one. From the viewpoint of the doorway, at any given time there's either a person exiting or a gap. Gaps delay emptying. The idea of waiting for the person who happens to be seated ahead of you to slowly get into the aisle and get their stuff down seems designed to maximize gaps. The method in this post minimizes them.
Apr 4, 2019, 1:29 pm
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the biggest problem with that approach is called “counter-flow” — if you’re in Row 7, but had to put your bag above Row 17 when you boarded late, you can certainly step into the aisle when a gap appears; if you’re lucky, you can slide into Row 9 before encountering the next disembarking passenger, but in no way are you going to be able to get back 10 rows any kind of quickly ... moreover, you’ll hang up the process again if you have to grab a backpack or coat or something that you weren’t carrying on your upstream trip