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Seems great in princinple, but I'm not sure this would work when coming up against human behaviour. It's as much as the stewards can do to stop some people char

Seems great in princinple, but I'm not sure this would work when coming up against human behaviour. It's as much as the stewards can do to stop some people charging down the aisle the minute the plane comes to a standstill, let alone communicating something this nuanced to everyone so they understand. It also means that families who are travelling together would need to deplane separately, which can screw up things in terms of helping each other with bags, and also wouldn't work with families who have multiple kids of an age where they need to walk with their parents. It feels like the kind of fragile system where you'd end up with so many exceptions that it becomes potentially even more messy as you'd need to communicate those exceptions and people would need to understand them.

netsharc 3y ago
That's probably why OP said it's open for discussion. But yeah herding (isn't the correct term flight attendants and not stewards?) the passengers would be difficult. Perhaps the procedure should be, if everyone in your group is holding all their belongings - either in the aisle or standing in the footspace of an aisle seat (so rows C and D in a 3-3 configuration), then they can join the deplaning wave. But if you're standing in the aisle but one from your group is still crouched in a window seat and will need to grab their bag, and you don't want to abandon them, then you don't occupy the aisle go back to your (presumably aisle-) seat and wait for the next wave/go into an empty row so the crouched passenger can stand in row C/D, and wait for the wave to finish so they can grab their bag.