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Idle thought I had a while back: Let people who don't have anything in the overhead bins get off first.

by frankus 7y ago

cogman10 7y ago
People without stuff should sit next to the aisle. (and get on last)
- JshWright 7y ago
  Without stuff in the overhead bin* I routinely travel with just a backpack that fits under the seat in front of me (packed for 3-5 days).
- JCharante 7y ago
  On the contrary, a lot of people store stuff in the overhead bins that they will access during the flight, so sitting in the aisle is the best spot for them (if you're trying to minimize how many times the people in aisles have to put their tray table up and rotate their legs. On flights more 2 hours (so 6/9/14 hour flights) I'll put on the provided slippers and store my shoes in the overhead bin so my feet have more room. I usually travel with a backpack and a satchel, but my sound cancelling headphones take up a lot of space in my satchel, so before landing I'll put them back in my backpack. I usually have to go to the bathroom anyways before landing, so it isn't an extra get-up-out-of-seat-and-into-aisle-operation. Yesterday I saw someone get up to access the bin 4-5 times in a 14 hour span. They were conviniently short enough so that they didn't have to get out of their seat (just had to stand on it) to access the bin.
tardo99 7y ago
Yes. To implement this you simply lock the overheads while in final descent, which makes sense anyway for safety reasons.
magduf 7y ago
I can get my stuff out of the overhead bin in about 1 second. I have a better idea: people should have to go through qualification testing to see how fast they can grab their backpack out of the bin and start walking down the aisle. Fast people should get special dispensation, and slow people should be required to leave last. The problem is that too many people bumble around and take forever to do a very simple task.
- boomboomsubban 7y ago
  Most people very rarely fly. Anyone can stumble doing a simple task for the first time in years while in a stressful situation.
  - magduf 7y ago
    That's fine: those people don't get priority status and have to wait until the qualified people leave until they can go.
bschwindHN 7y ago
Orrrr, hear me out, we just deal with people being a bit slow as just a part of life and remember that it's amazing we're able to fly at all.
- woutr_be 7y ago
  I recently had to travel home last minute, this is a 9.400km trip, amazingly it took me less than 18 hours door-to-door, probably could've done it in less than 16 hours if I didn't leave to the airport so early. I could care less if getting off the plane took 5-10 minutes longer than it should.
- kortilla 7y ago
  Doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. A house with a leaky roof is amazing compared to no shelter, but it’s still a leaky roof.
- wutbrodo 7y ago
  This sounds like some sort of patient wisdom until you realize that there's no actual upside to your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently. Appreciating the ability to fly across the world isn't exclusive of being able to improve the experience when there are easy ways to do so with few, if any, downsides. By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly.
  - bschwindHN 7y ago
    > your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently It's not a preference, it's a realization that this is a human problem and you're never going to get full compliance from a large group of people who all move at different speeds, have varying amounts of luggage, varyings levels of selfishness, and various other factors that affect deplaning speed. This whole comment thread seems to be full of single tech bros that are mad they can't get off the plane faster, and are trying to design "solutions" and "algorithms" to make it faster, all while assuming every other passenger is also a single person who can deplane as fast as them. > By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly. Because that's contrived and fucking stupid, whereas humans being slow and selfish in a cramped environment is a natural cause of delay.

Idle thought I had a while back: Let people who don't have anything in the overhead bins get off first.

cogman10 7y ago

People without stuff should sit next to the aisle. (and get on last)

JshWright 7y ago
Without stuff in the overhead bin* I routinely travel with just a backpack that fits under the seat in front of me (packed for 3-5 days).
JCharante 7y ago
On the contrary, a lot of people store stuff in the overhead bins that they will access during the flight, so sitting in the aisle is the best spot for them (if you're trying to minimize how many times the people in aisles have to put their tray table up and rotate their legs. On flights more 2 hours (so 6/9/14 hour flights) I'll put on the provided slippers and store my shoes in the overhead bin so my feet have more room. I usually travel with a backpack and a satchel, but my sound cancelling headphones take up a lot of space in my satchel, so before landing I'll put them back in my backpack. I usually have to go to the bathroom anyways before landing, so it isn't an extra get-up-out-of-seat-and-into-aisle-operation. Yesterday I saw someone get up to access the bin 4-5 times in a 14 hour span. They were conviniently short enough so that they didn't have to get out of their seat (just had to stand on it) to access the bin.

tardo99 7y ago

Yes. To implement this you simply lock the overheads while in final descent, which makes sense anyway for safety reasons.

magduf 7y ago

I can get my stuff out of the overhead bin in about 1 second. I have a better idea: people should have to go through qualification testing to see how fast they can grab their backpack out of the bin and start walking down the aisle. Fast people should get special dispensation, and slow people should be required to leave last. The problem is that too many people bumble around and take forever to do a very simple task.

boomboomsubban 7y ago
Most people very rarely fly. Anyone can stumble doing a simple task for the first time in years while in a stressful situation.
- magduf 7y ago
  That's fine: those people don't get priority status and have to wait until the qualified people leave until they can go.

bschwindHN 7y ago

Orrrr, hear me out, we just deal with people being a bit slow as just a part of life and remember that it's amazing we're able to fly at all.

woutr_be 7y ago
I recently had to travel home last minute, this is a 9.400km trip, amazingly it took me less than 18 hours door-to-door, probably could've done it in less than 16 hours if I didn't leave to the airport so early. I could care less if getting off the plane took 5-10 minutes longer than it should.
kortilla 7y ago
Doesn’t mean there isn’t room for improvement. A house with a leaky roof is amazing compared to no shelter, but it’s still a leaky roof.
wutbrodo 7y ago
This sounds like some sort of patient wisdom until you realize that there's no actual upside to your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently. Appreciating the ability to fly across the world isn't exclusive of being able to improve the experience when there are easy ways to do so with few, if any, downsides. By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly.
- bschwindHN 7y ago
  > your seeming preference of doing things less efficiently It's not a preference, it's a realization that this is a human problem and you're never going to get full compliance from a large group of people who all move at different speeds, have varying amounts of luggage, varyings levels of selfishness, and various other factors that affect deplaning speed. This whole comment thread seems to be full of single tech bros that are mad they can't get off the plane faster, and are trying to design "solutions" and "algorithms" to make it faster, all while assuming every other passenger is also a single person who can deplane as fast as them. > By your logic, why not add an additional mandatory thirty minute waiting period to deplane? After all, it's amazing that we can fly. Because that's contrived and fucking stupid, whereas humans being slow and selfish in a cramped environment is a natural cause of delay.