Comments on: The Plane Truth: Boarding by Rows Is the Worst Possible Way, Says Physicist

By: Elena

Elena — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:39:00 +0000

Boarding last would be a good idea, if overhead space didn’t fill up so fast, now that airlines charge extra fees for checking bags. Often if you wait, there’s no room in the overhead bins and the flight attendants have to check your bags, and you end up having to spend time to claim it.

By: Robert E. Coli

Robert E. Coli — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 01:44:30 +0000

Simply pay a little extra and board first with the other ASSOLs…
http://www.thrombyair.com/2010/09/assured-seat-selection-overhead-luggage-space-option-assols-2/

By: Alastair

Alastair — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 04:47:19 +0000

It doesn’t matter if people get assigned seats inside the plane or in the waiting area – there are too many morons who would still stuff it up. I don’t understand how people get it wrong but they do! Maybe just ban stupid and inefficient people from flying!

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 02:44:52 +0000

Awh sweet memories of what flying was like. I am proud I decided a few years ago there was nowhere I would ever want to go so badly as to submit to the discomfort and indignity of air travel.

By: BJB

BJB — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 23:08:39 +0000

My only travel request would be to make it a Federal crime to put your carry-on luggage in an overhead space more than an row away from your seat. People come on, pop their bag over row 5 and head back to row 22. The guy in row 5 has to wind up with his bag in the back of the plane and needs to let the entire plane get off before he can swim upstream to get his bag. The original idiot grabs his bag on the way out. Should be a death penalty for it.

By: Balicon

Balicon — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 21:34:48 +0000

Flying is the most polluting human activity there is. Just stop flying. Frequent fliers are environmental criminals. Just stop whining and get on the bus.

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 17:41:28 +0000

I am a flight attendant for a major airline and I hate boarding with a passion. It is the most stressful part of the whole flight experience for everyone concerned, passengers and crew.

However I have the perfect panacea from my own perspective; I always choose to work in the galley where I am extremely busy during the boarding process. Problem solved! Ha!

By: Flyer

Flyer — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 14:47:17 +0000

I’ve found the best approach to airplane travel is to practice deafness. It really helps you tune out the incessant discourteous/useless conversation around you and the whiners eventually give up begging you to do them a favor to satisfy their own selfishness. As an added bonus it makes the TSA people do more work. OK, so it slows things down but the reality is everyone is in a hurry which is what makes the whole process slow down – if everyone would take it easy and relax (the plane isn’t going to leave any earlier anyway and it’s probably going to be late anyway) the process would probably go faster. Haste makes waste.

What they should really do is pass out Xanax at the terminal entrances.

By: Ronald S. Boyd

Ronald S. Boyd — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:11:51 +0000

On a trip to England a few years ago we flew out of Gatwick airport (LGW). The system they employed worked quite well. We were called for boarding When the aircraft wasn’t even there yet. All of our documents and boarding passes were checked and were were seated in a long room. When the aircraft was ready for boarding…we boarded. No doc check nothing just get on the plane and get in your seat. Fastest boarding procedure I have ever seen. The final boarding order was random (as random as we were in the long room) and worked quite well.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:31:44 +0000

Last time i flew, i sat next to an obnoxious slob. He ordered a drink, complained about not getting it fast enough, spilled it on himself, ranted about it, and so on. Very amusing. The steward eventually upgraded him to 1st class, and offered me a free drink. By being evil, he got a free upgrade. By being oblivious, i got a free drink and two seats to myself.

He was also obvivious to the obvious humor of the situation. Apparently, there are people who live in a similar, but non-overlapping world to the one i live in.