Rapid seating

[Steve Cain]

>I think what airlines should do is tell eveyone boarding an aircraft to go
>find hte flight attendant and take a seat.... much like when you park your
>car at a stadium or event, you follow the parking attendants
>instructions...
Abandoninig the "zone boarding system" would be a beginning. It just never
did for anyone the authors intentions. You really do need to fill the
airplane like you would load any container, from back to front.
s

[Sancho Panza]

"Steve Cain" <sscain@ecentral.com> wrote in message
news:f38eb$49dce918$d826dfeb$23783@VIAWEST.NET...
> ...
>>I think what airlines should do is tell eveyone boarding an aircraft to go
>>find hte flight attendant and take a seat.... much like when you park your
>>car at a stadium or event, you follow the parking attendants
>>instructions...
> Abandoninig the "zone boarding system" would be a beginning. It just
> never did for anyone the authors intentions. You really do need to fill
> the airplane like you would load any container, from back to front.
> s

That's because of all the special exceptions and courtesies extended, along
with all the passengers who think they should be entitled to same and
proceed to block the aisle as they try to squeeze overloaded itemd into the
overhead bins..

[Steve Cain]

">>>I think what airlines should do is tell eveyone boarding an aircraft to
go
>>>find hte flight attendant and take a seat.... much like when you park
>>>your car at a stadium or event, you follow the parking attendants
>>>instructions...
>> Abandoninig the "zone boarding system" would be a beginning. It just
>> never did for anyone the authors intentions. You really do need to fill
>> the airplane like you would load any container, from back to front.
>> s
>
> That's because of all the special exceptions and courtesies extended,
> along with all the passengers who think they should be entitled to same
> and proceed to block the aisle as they try to squeeze overloaded itemd
> into the overhead bins..

Yes Sancho, and do visualize those sitting aft belongining to earlier
boarding zones; the stopping forward or mid plane and hoisting their
carryons into the compartments there and then having taken anothers storage
area and simultaneously blocking others passage they proceed to their
assigned seats. Of course if the airplane was being loaded rear to front
the flight attendants would be able to prevent this sort of behavior by
simple observation. With a "random zone" load one doesn't have a clue as to
where the assigned seating is comparative to luggage storage.
So the real world deal is there are many travelers who would do anything to
avoid carrying the carry on another 20 to 50 seats back and out again.
s

[Shawn Hirn]

In article <49dcf02a$0$5896$607ed4bc@cv.net>,
"Sancho Panza" <otterpower@x***********m> wrote:

> "Steve Cain" <sscain@ecentral.com> wrote in message
> news:f38eb$49dce918$d826dfeb$23783@VIAWEST.NET...
> > ...
> >>I think what airlines should do is tell eveyone boarding an aircraft to go
> >>find hte flight attendant and take a seat.... much like when you park your
> >>car at a stadium or event, you follow the parking attendants
> >>instructions...
> > Abandoninig the "zone boarding system" would be a beginning. It just
> > never did for anyone the authors intentions. You really do need to fill
> > the airplane like you would load any container, from back to front.
> > s
>
> That's because of all the special exceptions and courtesies extended, along
> with all the passengers who think they should be entitled to same and
> proceed to block the aisle as they try to squeeze overloaded itemd into the
> overhead bins..

Yup, and what exactly is the problem here? From where I sit, every seat
on the plane gets to its destination at the same time. What's most
important is that the flight arrives safely and reasonably on time.
Anything else just doesn't matter to most people.