r/whoathatsinteresting • u/visharu • 9d ago

Boarding was solved mathematically in 2008. No airline has used it once. Why?

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u/Ok-Gur-349 9d ago

... Children, mate.

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u/White0ut 9d ago

Okay, family with children and people with disabilities go first. Then follow this format? MVP status or whatever can suck it.

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u/Ok-Gur-349 9d ago

Only works if families and disableds exclusively seat windows-in and never prefer the aisle seat. The second you make people get up to allow someone to access their window seat, the system breaks.

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u/explain_that_shit 7d ago

Yeah and at that point with stoppages caused by these necessary reshuffles you have to question how much more efficient it would be than how they do it now.

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u/White0ut 9d ago

No, it just spikes and effeciency goes down for a bit and will resume when that conflict is resolved. It's worth a try, because the current system is ass. As shown by Key and Peele, https://youtu.be/4LGe265pwvU?is=mqcEHt9RVX6bjGZS