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http://www.quora.com/Air-Travel/Why-is-airplane-boarding-always-a-mob-scene/answer/Michele-Walk http://www.quora.com/Air-Travel/Why-is-airplane-boarding-alw... Disagree. That's outwardly more efficient, but it turns out that when we're tasked with sorting and arranging ourselves, we do this whole boarding a plane thing pretty efficiently (especially when we have a vague sense of our chances of finding a convenient spot for our bags or a good seat).