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Subject: Re: WSJ: Airlines Try New Strategies To Load Passengers Faster; Posted on: Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:41:06 MST

> The most efficient system would be to load row 25, then row 24, then row
> 23 etc.

[snip]

> Perhaps they should load 25, 23,21 etc (all odd numbers), and once those
> are loaded, you start with the even numbers starting at 24 and going
> down to 2.

Unless you use electronic access-control (as you mention), or increase gate
staffing, this won't work. The gate agents will call row 25, then 24, then
23 etc., then get distracted by a boarding problem and stop calling rows.
Then it's every man for himself. This is what happens now.

Cheers,
Geoff Glave
Vancouver, Canada

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