Waiting for airplane boarding What is a realistic way to digest longer matrices more efficiently?

by Cheng-en Cheng

Since airplanes have fewer entrances than trains and passages are narrower, the queue waiting for boarding tends to be long, and it often takes a lot of time from the start of guidance until actually arriving at the seat. CGP Gray , a channel that answers a variety of everyday questions, explains how to get on board an airplane more efficiently.

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You can always have a long queue at the airplane boarding gate at the airport.

Generally, only one or two boarding points of the aircraft are in front, and all passengers enter and exit from here.

And, generally, the passenger seat is divided into several blocks, and guide starts from the block behind. For the following images, guidance for boarding will be started from the block with the youngest number.

However, this riding method has a fatal problem. It is smooth until the first person arrives at the row of his / her seat ......

The problem of baggage storage interferes with the smooth column digestion.

If the next customer wishes to sit more in the back seat, nothing can be done unless the previous customer finishes packing their luggage.

This "baggage problem" frequently occurs in the middle of a row.

To announce boarding from the back to the front, it can be said that a huge amount of time is wasted unless you manage this baggage problem anyway.

By thinking separately from "horizontal movement" which urges customers to board the baggage storage and "vertical movement" to take in luggage, taking this ingenuity such that multiple customers store luggage at the same time, this loss is a little It will be Mashi.

However, if customers are going to take out tablets and PCs from the stored baggage, congestion will not be solved after all.

On the contrary, how about sitting from front to back? In fact, some boarding passengers may be on board from the front in boarding directions.

Here is the answer to the question "Why does the airline do not introduce a way to handle passengers' queues quickly?"

That is to make "economic incentives". First class passengers who purchase a higher boarding pass or senior members who are regulars of airlines are guided to the previous special seat earlier.

So what happens when boarding passengers ride in "random" getting on ignoring the order at once?

If everyone does not care about the order of the seats and gets on the airplane all at once, it is going to be a mess and it will take extra time ......

Actually, there is data that boarding time becomes shorter when getting in at random more than "ride in order from back to front". However, because this is also a highly likely way for passenger stress to increase, it is a sword of a blade.

As another boarding method, there is a method of "from the window to the aisle." Do not worry about the front and back of the seat, by guiding from the seat at the window side, troublesome congestion that people pass through the narrow space between the seat and the seat is solved.

However, what actually happens when simulating this actually is that the boarding time does not change so much as "random" in fact. However, because it is the earliest method among the previous methods, some airlines also have adopted "from the window to the aisle".

So, what is the most efficient boarding method? In the movie, we refer to that method as "complete step Stefan method". That way of riding is to sit alternately by skipping one row from the window to the aisle.

Taking the seat in the seat gives the following feeling. That way, in theory you can boil efficiently.

However, even though it is theoretically most efficient, this "complete Stephan method" is not quite realistic. Because we have to guide customers in this order perfectly. Human beings are not so easy to follow the instructions of others.

What is introduced there is the "modified Stephan method". CGP Gray claims that this method is the most efficient method except for the "complete step Stefan method".

"Modified Stephan Law" is to divide the seats into four groups according to the left and right and the row as shown in the following figure, and guide the passengers.

CGP Gray discusses this method as a realistic and most efficient boarding method.

"Perhaps, any airline may adopt the" modified Stefan law "in reality", but it is a place I would like the airline to consider positively.