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Scalene2 | 2 years ago

CGP Grey produced an excellent video about plane boarding methods, the fastest isn't obvious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo

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randycupertino|2 years ago

TLDW? So what method was the fastest?

kmeisthax|2 years ago

If you don't care about practicality, take all the even rows of seats, board the left window seats first, then the middle, then the aisles, then the right window, middle, and aisle, then the same thing again with the odd rows of seats. (Steffen Modified) If you're really dead set on perfection, force every one of those groups of people to board back-to-front, effectively creating a separate boarding group for each seat. (Steffen Perfect)

If you live on Planet Earth, don't assign seats and don't have boarding groups. Let people sit whenever and wherever they want. (Random) It turns out most people will naturally do the things that make boarding quick anyway and literally all organized boarding is a conspiracy to make boarding take longer so airlines can sell you faster boarding.

sublinear|2 years ago

None of them. The ultimate suggestion of the "steffen modified" is not much better than random. Neither is window-middle-aisle. For CGPGrey it's just nerding out for the sake of it. For the airlines it's publicity.