How to Board an Airplane Faster

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Tip 1 - MythBusters finds the fastest and most efficient plane boarding method

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Leo Valk | permalink

The popular television series MythBusters found that the boarding method used by most carriers is the slowest and least efficient of six possible seating techniques, clocking in at more than 24 minutes.
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For further reading: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-2765425/MythBusters-episode-reveals-fastest-way-board-passenger-planes-isn-t-technique-used-airlines.html ^[1]

Tip 2 - What’s Up With That: Boarding Airplanes Takes Forever

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Jeff Schowalter | permalink

Waiting to get on an airplane sucks. Is it possible that there's a better way?

For further reading: http://www.wired.com/2014/11/whats-boarding-airplanes-takes-forever/ ^[2]

Tip 3 - Mythbusters Proves Most Airlines Board Planes All Wrong

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Olivier Mutter | permalink

When you're boarding a plane, do you usually think to yourself, "There has got to be a better way to do this" as you jockey around other people for overhead bin space? Discovery Channel's Mythbusters experimented with every type of boarding, and the results are efficient, if not very fun.
Tags: Passenger Experience, Boarding, Mythbusters, Travel, Flight Club

For further reading: http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/mythbusters-proves-most-airlines-board-planes-all-wrong-1636981904 ^[3]

Tip 4 - There's a Better Way to Board Planes

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by chucky chandler | permalink

Back-to-front remains an industry standard even though there's an alternative that's nearly twice as fast.
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For further reading: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/theres-a-better-way-to-board-planes/383181/ ^[4]

Tip 5 - The Best Way to Board a Plane

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Gunnar Vaag | permalink

Most airlines board passengers the same way, first filling the seats in the back of the plane, and then moving to the front. After a recent experience boarding a plane in this manner, Fermilab physicist Jason Steffen wondered if there might be a better way. So, in the midst of studying gravitation and axion-like particles, Steffen took a short break to investigate an optimal boarding method for airline passengers.

For further reading: http://phys.org/news/2008-02-board-plane.html ^[5]

Tip 6 - What’s the Fastest Way to Board A Plane? (hint: probably not how you’re doing it now)

Published: 9 years, 4 month(s) ago | Submitted by Joe Cremona | permalink

Rejoice! The holiday travel (and shopping) season has finally come to a close. If you braved the friendly skies at some point in the last two weeks and f
Tags: plane boarding,travel

For further reading: http://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2015/01/05/whats-the-fastest-way-to-board-a-plane-hint-probably-not-how-youre-used-to-doing-it/ ^[6]