# why don't they board a plane by rows anymore? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 21, 2004, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-board-a-plane-by-rows-anymore/260823 "2004-08-21T04:59:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SmackFu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@SmackFu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmackFu)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-board-a-plane-by-rows-anymore/260823/21 "2004-08-23T19:18:11Z")
On a lot of plane layouts, the unwashed hordes enter between coach and business/first. So no mingling. ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-board-a-plane-by-rows-anymore/260823/22 "2004-08-23T21:54:47Z")
> [@gotpasswords](#): > > Honestly, the “just find a seat that doesn’t have a spring poking out and put your butt in it” schemes seem to work better than assigned seating. Of course, prohibiting carry-on of anything large or heavy enough to need wheels would help immensely. That’s exactly the policy of Ryanair. They very openly state that the free-for-all is quickest. Their turnaround of aircraft is 25 minutes, no matter what airport. If the airport can’t assure them that baggage and fuel won’t be done in that time, they just don’t fly there. And in my experience, they’re right - the doors are almost always shut before well before the baggage is all loaded. (And the carry-on is as heavily restricted as any airline, preventing first-class hogs putting all their worldly possessions into the first two-thirds of the lockers.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-dont-they-board-a-plane-by-rows-anymore/260823.md?page=1)