I detest how people deplane in the US. In Japan and Taiwan, airlines don’t charge an arm and a leg for checked luggage.
Most people don’t have the massive roller carry-one, so luggage put in the overhead bins are easily removed.
Most importantly, after the plane is at the gate, people stand up, get their luggage ready so when it’s time, they walk off.
In the US, a lot of people just on their asses until everyone in front of them is completely gone. then and only then does it occur to them that there are multiple steps involved in leaving. And they have to do this in the isle of course.
I’m not quite following how “people stand up, get their luggage ready”. In a 757, for example, there isn’t room in the aisle for all 6 people in a row to get up and stand next to their seat. The whole complement of passengers can’t be standing in the aisle. I’d be 100% in favor of any change to the system that speeds up the deplaning process, but I don’t really follow what you’re suggesting.
Not everyone has the massive carry-on roller luggage. The people in the isles get up and get their bags and wait. The people who have stored their bags under the seat in front of them have retrieved their bags.
As people are clearing out, everyone starts to stand and often people will get their bags from the overhead bins but wait in the row. Ones who can’t get actually stand up are ready to stand up and get bags.
You just don’t see people sitting like royalty waiting until the passengers in front of them are already moving before getting up.
I for one do not get the importance of rapid deplaning, except on commuter type flights where a lot of passengers do not have checked baggage. What do people gain from getting off the plane one minute earlier, to stand around at the carousel one minute longer?
In single aisle aircraft, unless I am one of the lucky ones who can stand in the aisle, getting up means standing in a contorted position.
I still am not understanding your complaint here. The people are not “sitting like royalty,” they are sitting because there is no place for them to go until those in front have moved. And you can’t stand up straight so why would you want to stand hunched over for 10 minutes?
You physically cannot fit six people from one row in the aisle at the same time. You cant even fit two. They have to sit and wait for the crowds in front to depart first.
It’s the people who think they are so important (like royalty maybe?) who immediately bolt up to stand in the aisle and then get stuck there blocking everyone else that I don’t understand.
Correct. And only then can they retrieve their carry-on from the overhead bin.
In fact, one of my pet peeves is the passenger that stands as soon as the plane stops, grabs his bag, and moves as far forward as he can before he encounters other passengers. Wait your turn, jerk.
Well, some of us have tight connections. In fact the thing that annoys me is when the flight attendant announces “Some of your fellow passengers have tight connections. If you have some extra time please remain seated and let the passengers with tight connections off first.” And everyone always ignores those instructions and just gets up and starts retrieving their carry-ons as usual. So I, the person with the tight connection, have to come down the aisle saying “Excuse me, I have a tight connection, can you please let me by?”
No, I’m never booking a 50 minute connection at O’Hare ever again (which turned into a 20 minute connection because we took off late).
Unless the flight attendants had a special yellow hat to the folks they’ve identified as having tight connections, pushing forward through the rest of the passengers saying you have a tight connection isn’t going to be very credible.
But conversely, I’m sure those who don’t have tight connections, or don’t have a connection at all, know who they are. Yet they chose to ignore the flight attendant’s instructions and just deplane as usual.
I have been on a couple of flights that were delayed on takeoff, which made for tight connections for several passengers. Each time when the attendant made such an announcement, those passengers were allowed free, er, passage, through the aisle to deplane.
Note that this happened only when the flight was late. If you book travel where you have a small window between flights, that’s on you, IMO.
That’s my husband! We’ll be watching TV or sitting outside, and all of a sudden he’ll blurt out something like - so when I do that, I’ll have to buy a new hammer. I look at him and say - I don’t even know what you’re talking about. He looks at me like, how can you not know?
They seem to think that the other person is somehow privy to their internal thoughts.
So they are thinking about groceries and ask “what about tomorrow?” and expect you to somehow know that they mean “what groceries do we need to buy tomorrow”.