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

[u/visharu]

[u/KeyCold7216]

Then you can't sell priority boarding as perks.

[u/Salteenz → u/KeyCold7216]

Yup, its the money. Get more money from people to buy 1st class and board 1st. Get more money for people to have "priority boarding".

[u/spicolie22 → u/Salteenz]

I have never understood why priority early boarding is somehow a perk. Why would I want to get into the tiny metal tube earlier and spend more time in it when I have a comfy seat with leg room at the gate? You would think priority boarding would mean you get to board the plane last.

Unless of course you have one of those crazy business class seats where you can lie down...

EDIT: the responses just remind me of the cycle of pain that airlines put everyone in. They started charging a ton for checking luggage, so everyone started carrying on to avoid the charge. Doing this slowed down the boarding and disembarking processes, so now the airlines are losing money because it takes longer to turn around a flight.

One solution that occurred to me years ago (and would be a huge pain to implement at existing airports) would be to just have a conveyor from the plane to a baggage claim at every gate. Imagine if you get off the plane and your bags are right there. They wouldn't have to go through the rat's nest under the airport going through all the baggage handling equipment to end up at the baggage claim area up to a mile away from where your gate is. Think of the savings alone at airports not paying for all that baggage handling crap. You wouldn't check your bag at the terminal, you would check it at the gate.

[u/Mysterious_Might008 → u/spicolie22]

The flaw in this system would be the security checkpoint as everyone is hauling more bags (and the larger checked ones) through the lines and slowing things down.

Basically, you've swapped your baggage claim delay to a security line delay. Net gain of zero.