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New sliding jetliner seat designed to speed up boarding
Airplane aisles can get as congested as an L.A. freeway when passengers are boarding. Planes have become more crowded and carry-ons larger. One person stopping to shove a bag into the overhead compartment can create a long line and delay boarding. (travel.usatoday.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
I want to know where I have gone wrong at. In the past year, I have flown Eagle and onto AA, generally a 67 or 77 and Pinnacle and then DAL, generally a 757 of some gender, mostly coach, and I have never seen any of this back to front boarding. Mine, on either airline, was always by zone from front to back.
Best solution would be to stop everyone taking so much hand baggage onboard. Nothing more than a briefcase etc. The rest in the hold. No need for the extra cost of developing anything.
Wouldn't it be easier to halve boarding times by loading from the fromt and rear (both by jetway please note Ryanir). Would it be expensive to design such a jetway?
It's a safety hazard to have all that baggage in the overhead compartments in the first place. It should not be allowed. Period. Nothing like creating your own problems.
It was said the aisle in flight is still the same size. Where did the extra 3" width in the middle seat come from? Did they take 1.5" from each of the window and aisle seats ?
On one flight in particular I witnessed a person put two large carry-ons in the overhead bin above our first row seats and then proceeded almost all the way to the back of the plane. Flight attendant saw the whole thing and made the offended check ALL of their carry on luggage. However most of the time the flight attendants do nothing but complain about everyone not sitting down as quickly as possible.
I have watched the overhead bins when we I fly and over half of the luggage in the overheads in the first 10 rows belongs to people sitting in the very back of the plane