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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Please Remain Seated Until Your Row is Called for Boarding -- A Wired News article on airplane boarding strategies, reports on an industrial engineering research study, comparing the long-standing back-to-front zone boarding method to window-middle-aisle, "reverse pyramind" (a combination of the two), and Southwestern's unassigned by group approaches. Anazing that people haven't considered the alternatives to this bottleneck sooner, but I guess as pressures grow to turn around planes on the ground sooner, pressures to think a little deeper grow as well.
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