The boarding process at @SouthwestAir (no assigned seats, random boarding order) has been shown to be 70% more efficient than the "board assigned seats from the back" method that everyone else uses. So why doesn't every airline board this way?
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United already boards such that aisles are in the last group, modulo some other complexities. Part of the problem with these schemes is not just upselling, but also passenger confusion and misunderstanding at the gate. It's a complex issue.
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But my next best idea is to have planes with open-top fuselages and giant caddies containing the entire passenger deck of the plane, which can be swapped in and out at the airport in seconds with cranes, while passengers can seat themselves at their leisure at the airport.
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Intercontinental flights should be done under anesthesia. Just stack "coffins for the living" into the fuselage, could use some efficient automation for the load/unload process. And could dramatically improve density. Could PoC on second-hand C17, Hercules or Transall
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