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Tuesday, May 9, 2006
The economics of airline boarding
Source: Wired
An airplane that spends an hour on the ground between flights might fly five trips a day, but cut that down to 40 minutes, and maybe the same plane can complete six or seven flights a day. So cash-strapped airlines are using sophisticated computer modeling to find more efficient means to board airplanes. Check out the fascinating animation of the different models they've come up with. Now if only we could create a computer program that makes that one guy sit down so we can take off.
Posted by mwelch at 05:47 PM
