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Originally Posted by bizaro86
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.
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To me that just wasting both your labour and your capital investment with planes. Especially with things like Calgary Edmonton or LA Sanfrancisco. Improving it could mean an extra flight a day. Seems like there would be money being left on the table if boarding people was slower than boarding cargo. I know I have been seated on planes while the luggage is still coming out on the carts.