Obviously many people would enjoy faster boarding times, but the article barely mentions the huge problems that would come from splitting up families.
When a family's 8-year-old has the window seat, they're expected to enter the plane alone and stow their bag in the overhead compartment?
The only time this is mentioned is where it says "The outcome is fairly robust in that it's relatively insensitive to deviations because of couples or families being seated together."
So now we don't just have 18 separate boarding zones, we have some significant percentage of people in 'boarding groups' with each other. Sounds like a mess.
One of the most advantageous parts of the current system is that it works and it's (probably) not the bottleneck for departure time. Any other method would no doubt cause extra problems, at least for a while, with little to no benefit for the airline.
When a family's 8-year-old has the window seat, they're expected to enter the plane alone and stow their bag in the overhead compartment?
The only time this is mentioned is where it says "The outcome is fairly robust in that it's relatively insensitive to deviations because of couples or families being seated together."
So now we don't just have 18 separate boarding zones, we have some significant percentage of people in 'boarding groups' with each other. Sounds like a mess.
One of the most advantageous parts of the current system is that it works and it's (probably) not the bottleneck for departure time. Any other method would no doubt cause extra problems, at least for a while, with little to no benefit for the airline.
[edited for clarity]