The airlines board aircrafts in the ascending order of "Zones". Everyone knows how chaotic and time consuming it is. The long lines are formed to wait for people who are trying to stow their luggage while people await to go past him/her. It does make sense to fill the plane from the back and come progressively front-ward. No wonder, business-class and people with kids and needing assistance are boarded first.
Recently there are various ideas being put forward to speed up the boarding airplanes. It seems that boarding from back of the plane and filling window-seat passengers are the best way [see 1 and 2]. I like the Wilma boarding scheme where the window seats are zone 1 and aisle seats are zone 3.
Having seen some of the schemes to speed up the boarding, I am inspired to propose a color-coded boarding scheme.
In this scheme, instead of calling zones, the calling is dependent upon the color-codes say blue, green, red etc. Blue and green color seats are the window seats are are called first. If tickets are booked together, in the case of husband/wife/ friend scenario, they are coded the same color. I realized that in [2] it is similar to the wilma scheme. However, my idea is closer to steffen method (see figure). Read on...
The seats are filled from back to front in an alternate seats. However, as shown in the figure, 1,2,3 etc are blue and seats 19, 20, 21 etc are also blue. If 1 and 25 booked together, then they are grouped together as blue. The numbers 13, 14, 15 and 7, 8, 9 are green color. In this way, the passengers get enough space to move around to stow their luggage and should make boarding faster.
References:
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Recently there are various ideas being put forward to speed up the boarding airplanes. It seems that boarding from back of the plane and filling window-seat passengers are the best way [see 1 and 2]. I like the Wilma boarding scheme where the window seats are zone 1 and aisle seats are zone 3.
Having seen some of the schemes to speed up the boarding, I am inspired to propose a color-coded boarding scheme.
In this scheme, instead of calling zones, the calling is dependent upon the color-codes say blue, green, red etc. Blue and green color seats are the window seats are are called first. If tickets are booked together, in the case of husband/wife/ friend scenario, they are coded the same color. I realized that in [2] it is similar to the wilma scheme. However, my idea is closer to steffen method (see figure). Read on...
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| Steffen method of seating order. See [2 ,3] for details. See text for details on how it might be possible to make it faster by color-coded boarding. |
The seats are filled from back to front in an alternate seats. However, as shown in the figure, 1,2,3 etc are blue and seats 19, 20, 21 etc are also blue. If 1 and 25 booked together, then they are grouped together as blue. The numbers 13, 14, 15 and 7, 8, 9 are green color. In this way, the passengers get enough space to move around to stow their luggage and should make boarding faster.
References:
- http://physicsworld.com/blog/2011/08/how_to_board_an_aircraft_in_a.html
- http://arxiv.org/abs/1108.5211
- http://www.citeulike.org/user/eyliu/article/9730619
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