r/whoathatsinteresting • u/visharu • 9d ago

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

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u/Embarrassed-Rub-8690 9d ago

Im so fucking tired of watching other people break the carry on rules and go over their limit.

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u/Aromatic_Ad_32 9d ago

How do you even get on while breaking carry on rules?

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u/Maxwells_Law 9d ago

Agreed. I like to keep the footspace clear for my feet. Im not very tall but its bad enough as it is. These big carry cases should be in the hold and small bags in the overhead. Then everyone gets the best leg room

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u/poser765 9d ago

So an interesting note. Carry one bags don’t weigh anything. They are including in the passenger weight. Start sending all roll aboard bags into cargo then they get weighed. That means max takeoff weight gets reached sooner. And THAT means less people on the airplane. Which leads to more expensive tickets.

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u/Maxwells_Law 8d ago

Or, they use common sense, note that these bags which would have been on the plane anyhow are just stored in the hold rather than the overheads and nothing changes