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Old Posted Nov 12, 2019, 9:28 PM
CoryB CoryB is offline
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^^ The biggest problem with jet bridge boarding times is all the premium seating is at the front of the plane and those people get preferred boarding access (ie on the plane first). Pretty sure there are studies which say if you load the plane starting with the furthest from the entrance (ie the back with a jet bridge) to the front it has the quickest boarding time. The reason is you can get a good number of people into the plane and you aren't waiting for row 20 to get past row 6 that is slowing the boarding process while putting their stuff into overhead bins.

From dual door loading to work quicker you still need to load passengers in order but from the middle of the plane towards both doors. The challenge is those boarding scenarios either are busing people to the plane (common in Europe) or have people walking on the tarmac from the terminal. Both systems make it near impossible to keep passengers in a sequence.
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