Friday, January 16, 2009

Boarding the aircraft, please step out of the aisle

Spending lots of time traveling, I'm thinking about airport logistics, which I'm sure is not unique, partly because I'm sure there are travelers who travel more often than me, not to mention professionals in the industry, and because I did a Google search.

But the idea of more efficient airline boarding is interesting to me, especially because mathematicians have done modeling that shows that there are way more efficient ways to do it than the ones we use now.

Although, the chatter on the boards favors drawing an outline of the plane seating on the floor of the airport, which gets complicated when you use more than one type of aircraft. It would work for Southwest, but not for anyone else.

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