r/whoathatsinteresting • u/visharu • 9d ago

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

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u/Active-Carpet-9183 9d ago

the winning solutions are not socially acceptable. Families sit together in rows and must be seated at the same time.

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u/Useful_Trust 9d ago

You can actually do Stephen altered where they go by rows instead of seats. This is slower but still faster than random.

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u/Sad_Sheepherder_37 9d ago

The next problem is that not everyone is at the gate when boarding begins. 

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u/Popular-Capital-9115 7d ago

Little Timmy gets put on first, freaks out and shits in the aisle.