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Surely airlines can just do this empirically rather than rely on simulations. Why not just A/B test a bunch of different boarding methods on different flights a
by shalmanese 15y ago
Surely airlines can just do this empirically rather than rely on simulations. Why not just A/B test a bunch of different boarding methods on different flights and time what works the best?
- bdunbar 15y agoExpense. Every method of boarding will require training the flight crew, ground crews at the airport. A non-trivial expense to change over from A to B. And then back. Departure times are measured down to the minute. Miss your time and much activity downstream is affected - pax connections, gate use at destination airport, flights downstream. And so on. I'm sure that they do use A/B testing or something like that ... but they do a whole lot of simulatin' first.