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Originally Posted by GGG
Do you think boarding is the bottleneck? They won’t board efficiently and use boarding order to sell upgrades. To that suggests inefficient boarding doesn’t delay take off. If it did we’d board back to front window to aisle with seating grids on the floor to stand in and have all bin space more formally allocated.
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In aggregate no. They plan enough time for the average number of morons and build that into the schedule.
On an individual flight basis boarding is absolutely the bottleneck. Once everyone is on board and sitting down they're generally ready to leave, and I've had flights with few passengers leave as much as 15 minutes early.
I think the not boarding from both doors is at least partially a weather thing - in Australia I've boarded planes where both rear stairs and the front jet bridge were used, and it was considerably faster.