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This had been known for a while. Yet there are different considerations besides fastest boarding time. First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each
by mynegation 13y ago
This had been known for a while. Yet there are different considerations besides fastest boarding time. First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue which may be either uncomfortable or downright infuriating if you travel with young kids.
I can imagine that letting passengers take their seats at random results in pretty fragmented available seating so if you travel as a large group and want to seat together, this might be a problem too.
- furyofantares 13y agoI think you could still do columns -- just allow people to go out of order if they are going with someone that's going in order.
- jdcryans 13y ago> First, people traveling together tend to sit next to each other, so ordering by "columns" instead of rows breaks them apart in the queue You can order by column but still let families together, for example with United you can board with your group/family's lowest group number. This means a 1K with boarding group 1 can bring in his wife and kid (who are somewhere between 3 and 5 if they don't have status) on the plane all at the same time. This way you can fill up whole rows at once.