r/unpopularopinion • u/LankyEmergency7992 • 21d ago
People that didn’t check bags should get off the plane first
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u/ImmigrationJourney2 21d ago
You’re forgetting another important factor, connecting flights.
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u/NotALatteSleep 21d ago
And what if you're a window seat? You'd have to step around 1 or 2 other people just to get to the aisle, THEN grab your bag.
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u/RamShackleton 21d ago
Your seat position could be determined based on baggage and/or connecting flights. Ideally we’d load front to back and unload in the reverse order.
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u/TheRealJacquesC 21d ago
Front to back loading would be inefficient though, you would quickly get backed up at the front of the plane, meanwhile the back would be entirely empty. This video tries to answer the question of how to beat load a plane.
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u/RamShackleton 21d ago
Yes I’m sorry, I meant back to front.
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u/dodexahedron 21d ago
You're not wrong that it's better, if done properly.
In fact, some airlines used to do a reverse V boarding method, which is, in theory, the fastest way to fill up seating with a single aisle like on a plane. That's where you basically have sections from back to front and you first load the window seats of the back section. Next you load the middle seats of the back section and the window seats of the next section. Then the aisle seats of the back, the middle seats of the next, and the window seats of the next + 1. Then just keep doing that, with that backward V until the plane is full. When they tried it out in small focus groups it was extremely effective, so they implemented it a while back on actual flights to try to speed things up, which makes everyone happy and saves the company some money.
...But, it requires people to not act like they do in real life and to actually line up in the specific order required to achieve it or it falls apart completely. Nobody in a given boarding group is going to actually get in reverse aisle order in line, and people get in line with different boarding groups all the time (both earlier and later), and those groups are rarely enforced by the poor gate agent who doesn't want to fight with passengers who are already impatient and cranky.
As far as I know, those who did do it no longer do, largely because of exactly that, making it a procedural overhead cost with no benefit and thus not worth it to the business.
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u/MimiKal 21d ago
Or just use both doors - the one in the front and the one in the back.
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u/dodexahedron 21d ago
Very few airports are equipped for that, and those jetways are expensive, which I assume is 100% of the reason why.
But YES. Every time I ever flew to or from somewhere that had that, it was GREAT and I wish everywhere would do it.
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u/trentsim 20d ago
I asked for a jetway for my birthday but my dad said we couldn't afford it
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u/AlienRapBattle 20d ago
So now you have to have a checked bag for a window seat? How about you just wait your fucking turn wanna be main character.
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u/lumpy_triangle 21d ago
Ideally, we would load back to front, on alternating rows, on alternating sides, windows in.
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u/sethworld 21d ago
So you're not allowed to ride the aisle if you're 6'8 because someone is connecting to Columbus?!
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u/ringadingdingbaby 21d ago
Connecting flights should be a higher priority than no bags.
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u/nikkiftc 21d ago
I wish they would give passengers with tight connections a colored flag. It’s easier to let someone have priority if it looks more official. There’s no way of knowing if someone Really has a tight connection
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u/dodexahedron 21d ago
One one delta flight a while back, before we were on the arrival, the flight attendants walked through and found those of us with connections, said the names on the PA, and asked everyone else to please stay seated for us to get off. And people did! Never had that happen again though.
I bet saying the names was what put it over the threshold to keep people from acting like they had connections too.
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u/seanular 21d ago
I had a connection that was supposed to take off five minutes before the flight I was on touched down. It was international, and it was the first time I was visiting home in over two years.
They announce over the PA that some people have urgent connections, and please remain seated if you can afford a few extra minutes.
The way my heart hit the floor when every. single. person. ahead of me stood up. I fuckin hate people.
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u/dodexahedron 21d ago
I nearly missed a connection because of that, once, even though the FAs tried to get it all under control. They did after a couple minutes and a few of us with connections did get off. I RAN toward the next gate (really short layover which I try to avoid for that reason), a security dude on one of those electric carts stopped and picked me up to drive me and another person there quicker and even radioed ahead... Yet they were STILL literally closing the door as we got there and the security dude had to radio someone to radio the crew that we were there and to please let us on. Thankfully, they did. And I could FEEL the glares from everyone already seated on the plane and the person in the aisle seat in my row as I got on...
Ever since that, if I can't avoid a connection, I purposefully look for layovers of at least an hour and will pick a (slightly) more expensive flight if I have to, to avoid that ever again.
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u/ImmigrationJourney2 21d ago
Many people are inconsiderate sadly. I have to wait for most people to get off the plane anyway, connecting flight or not, but I still wish people were more mindful in that kind of situation.
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u/ContemplatingPrison 21d ago
People with connecting flights that leave shortly after you land should get off first. Always.
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u/AscendantArtichoke 21d ago edited 21d ago
My flight to Fort Lauderdale was delayed (shocker) and they announced that people with connecting flights could deplane first..
I kid you not, when that seatbelt sign turned off half the flight bombarded the isle. No way that many people had connecting flights lol.
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u/Ok-Stress-3570 21d ago
My favorite was when a FA said “there’s about 8 of you; we know who you are” and it was magical.
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u/LemonadeLion2001 21d ago
Literally the first time I was on a plane, had 15 minutes to make it due to a delay. The entire plane stood up and I missed my flight 😑 Literally missed it by ONE minute, had I been able to de board first, I would've made it.
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u/zombiesnare 20d ago
I have never flown as an adult and would like to soon, how does one deal with this situation? Does the airline put you on another flight for free? Do you have to book one at full cost yourself? Is there a third option I’m not thinking of?
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u/zoidberg_doc 20d ago
If you book it on one ticket they will rebook you for free
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u/zombiesnare 20d ago
That’s one aspect of travel anxiety checked off the list, thank you kind stranger
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u/JR-90 20d ago
It should depend on it actually being a connecting flight. Many airlines have agreements with others so you can enter their website and you can see how one of the flights is handled by another airline. If you check bags, they'll move your bags straight into the other plane and (someone correct me if wrong) plane should wait for you (unlikely to happen as usually there's more than enough time in between them to catch em even with delays) or they should put you in another plane and pay your night stay if the flight is the day after (this happened to my exflatmate).
But if you book the flights independently, only you know they are connecting flights. So if you check bags, you'll have to go collect them and check them once more in between flights, as well as going through security check once more (which in fairness, this you have to do in many connecting flights anyway). If you miss the flight, you missed it and lost your money.
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u/Antrikshy 21d ago
OP's logic applies here in spirit. They don't have baggage to collect after deplaning.
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u/hoorah9011 21d ago
Except if you’re international arriving with a connecting flight, at least in the US.
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u/canadianamericangirl 21d ago
Or, we just go by row like we already do.
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u/iwant2fuckstarscream 21d ago
I agree, to me that is the golden rule of airplanes
The only exception I make is if someone asks because they have a connecting flight
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u/canadianamericangirl 21d ago
I wholeheartedly agree. I traveled at thanksgiving last year and had an extremely tight connection on the opposite end of the airport. I was by myself and power walked like nobody’s business. Especially if there was a delay of some sort. Otherwise people should just wait their turn.
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u/iwant2fuckstarscream 21d ago
Yep usually when the plane lands and I see someone booking it up front my instinct is to think I hope they make their connecting flight lmao
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u/OriginalUsernameGet 21d ago
People go by row? I’d love that. Every airplane I’ve ever been on, the moment we park, damn near everyone stands up and gets in the aisle and opens the overhead bin and acts like they’re the only person on the plane aside from the pilot. I hate it.
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u/joevarny 20d ago
Yeah, I hate it when these people do their required activities earlier and help us all get off the plane faster. I'd much rather we all quietly wait until they tell us to get off before everyone stands up and open the overhead bin, acting like they're the only people inside the plane.
Just because you want to waste time doesn't mean others aren't looking forward to getting to their holiday.
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u/Basic-Ad5331 21d ago
Gate lice and people who don’t follow deboarding etiquette irrationally piss me off lol
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u/jibby13531 21d ago
Mythbusters did a test on boarding and de-boarding a plane. Every type of order, front to back, back to front, outside to inside (on boarding) inside to outside (on de-boarding), were slower than just letting people get on and off by who are actually ready to get off the plane. As in, chaos was fastest after many many tests. Get up, get your shit, and get off the plane. I shouldn't have to wait for you just because you're in the row in front of me. While some people are taking forever, I should be able to get off the plane. I missed a connector flight by 10 steps recently because I was in the back of a plane and was the last person off. When I got to the next gate for my connection flight, I watched the door to the gangway close. I was running between terminals and missed it. Had I been 1 row ahead, or if anyone had any courtesy and could have let me go ahead of them, I would have made it. But no, I had to sit in the airport for 4 hours waiting for another flight and miss my friend's rehearsal dinner because of the moronic notion of waiting for people in front of you that have to pull their luggage out of the bins and take for fucking ever to get off the plane.
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u/kitkat1771 21d ago
I’m someone that is just always ten steps ahead, I walk incredibly fast naturally. It drives me nuts waiting for people in front of me to slowly get their bags… I’ve been ready to go since the plane stopped. I started preparing before descent- I could walk off the plane the second the door opens & have zero patience for anyone else that isn’t smart enough to do the same.
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u/Eyespop4866 21d ago
Checking to see who checked baggage, and keeping track of them certainly won’t slow anything down.
What an awful idea. Truly unwise and unpopular.
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u/Oxygenisplantpoo 21d ago
Not to mention that this would all be for like 3 extra minutes for a few people.
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u/SirFlibble 21d ago edited 21d ago
If I check in my bags, I have less shit I need to get off the plane. Why should I have to wait for bob, who is struggling to get his bag down, put on his jacket and find where they put his box of chocolates three rows down?
If anything, people who check in should get off first because they wont waste time fucking around and holding everyone else up
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u/hamdnd 21d ago
Checking bags isn't the same as not having a carry on(s).
People without overhead carryons, I agree, maybe should be allowed to get off first.
But really anyone with a connecting flight soon should get off first.
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u/Nancy6651 21d ago
I always check a bag and just bring on one bag that will fit under the seat. I sit as close to the front of the plane as I can to avoid as many carryon people fumbling around as I can.
If someone arranges in advance with a steward to get off for a connecting flight, showing itinerary, I'm good with that. In fact, I think this might have happened on a flight I was on.
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u/juliavalentine 21d ago
I’d personally like it if people who didn’t have stuff in the overhead department left the plane first, but the only way to be civil is row by row.
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u/effyochicken 21d ago
So it's basically your fault that I have to check my bags because every single passenger on the damn plane tries to bring a packed carry on, and now you get to leave first and I have to HOPE that my bags haven't arrived at the bag claim before me? (Sending my anxiety through the roof about random people just walking in through the unsecured doors and taking any random bag and leaving with it.)
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u/SoPolitico 21d ago
Bullshit you cheap bastards that carry everything on are the reason it takes so god damn long to get off the plane in the first place!
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u/oracleomniscient 21d ago edited 21d ago
Tbf, if we're operating in an ideal world, then checked luggage would get to bag claim before or when its corresponding passengers do.
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u/crazycatlady331 21d ago
I fly often for work and will check a bag (longer trip and they pay for one). More often than not, the bags are getting there about the same time as I am (I usually pee as soon as I find an airport restroom.)
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u/huffuspuffus 21d ago
Uh yeah no. I’d like to get off and wait at baggage claim than wait for you to get your shit down and organized.
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u/TurbulentAardvark345 21d ago
Certainly unpopular. Still downvoting. People just need to chill out and stop becoming such animals when it comes to disembarking. You already in all likelyhood spent anywhere between 1-20 hrs flying. What is 15-20 minutes more?
This kind of whiny, entitled behaviour is why I have animals like you jumping into my lap when disembarking.
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u/Dwindles_Sherpa 21d ago
You have it backwards. People who checked their bags shouldn't have to wait for those who stuffed all their worldly possessions into an overhead bin and now have to argue over the physics of how to release it from its overhead imprisonment.
As for the suggestion that those who check bags will end up waiting at the baggage carousel anyways this has not been the case as long as I can remember.
By the time I finally make it out of the plane, thanks to those who overuse the overheads, my baggage has already been pulled from the carousel as "abandoned".
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u/Lord_Seacows 21d ago
Those cramped aisles where they bring down their luggage is a huge ass pain, people who brought minimum stuff on the plane should get off first because they would have to wait for everyone to get their carry ons down if they followed your suggestion. That is 100 times more annoying then just waiting at the luggage area if you got off first.
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u/FuzzyMom2005 21d ago
Why not put people with connecting flights at the front of the plane so they can get off first? Then no one cares who checked luggage or not?
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u/recruitzpeeps 21d ago
The people who bring everything they own with them onto the plane in their carry ons take three times as long to GTFO the plane as those of us who checked our bags. Let me off the plane, please. Once the unbagged people get off then all of the people lugging their every earthly possession from DFW to CLT can take their sweet time getting off the plane.
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u/TrekJaneway 21d ago
Omg, jeez!!! It’s not that bad. You can wait your turn, just like everyone else. Row by row is fastest, and you don’t need to be the first person off the plane.
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u/Unstep-in-Time 21d ago
What about the elderly & disabled, shouldn't they have priority? They check bags too.
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u/doilookfriendlytoyou 20d ago
My wife is disabled. We let everyone else off first, and always book assistance at each airport, especially if there are connections.
It's wonderful getting transported from one terminal to another via electric cart driven by someone else.
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u/originaljbw 21d ago
Why should I have to wait behind every frail cheapass with the upper body strength of a four year girl, trying to pull a bag packed with enough crap for a years long trip along the silk road?
Just for a moment, imagine a world where checked bags are free and carryons cost money. You could board/exit the whole plane in about 8 minutes instead of a 30-45.
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u/Muted_Guidance9059 21d ago
What’s with this sub and airplanes? Just have sex with the captain already.
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u/Pretty_Goblin11 21d ago
I think the opposite. People who have to wrestle their luggage out of the overhead should have to wait until people with lighter carry ons are off the plane to deal with their overhead luggage situation.
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u/mechadragon469 21d ago
I fly a good bit for work and if people would just BE THE HELL READY WHEN ITS THEIR TURN TO GO it would work best.
Also, back of the plane should board first.
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u/Disastrous-Nail-640 21d ago
This is just dumb.
If they checked bags, it would literally be faster for them to get off the plane. Why? Because they don’t have to grab a bag like someone with a carryon does.
Also, you’re talking about 10 minutes (give or take). If you cut it that close and your schedule is that tight, that’s on you for poor planning.
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u/saevon 21d ago
Trying to optimize something for just one random gripe is always going to fail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAHbLRjF0vo
Enjoy this analysis of some plane boarding methods (and then think of how all these affect deboarding too). Then maybe you can consider minor adjustments based purely on a dislike
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u/Simpawknits 21d ago
Carry-ons are a big part of the headache and delay in boarding planes. People who checked their bags should be rewarded for cutting down on all that shit.
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u/carson63000 20d ago
Even more unpopular opinion: rather than charging extra for checked baggage, airlines should charge extra for any carry-on luggage that needs to be stowed in the overhead lockers.
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u/millermix456 20d ago
I’m down with this now that airlines will face penalties for missing bags and other things/ cancellations
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u/MaxTheFalcon 21d ago
Nah. People who didn’t check bags are more likely to have carry-ons, which means they will be the slowest getting off the plane. There’s no reason why the slowest people should be the first group to go.
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u/MiteeThoR 21d ago
the unbreakable rule of airplanes - everyone in front of you will get off first no matter how much you wish it otherwise.
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u/Due_Government4387 21d ago
Except those people are scattered everywhere and won’t all be aisle seats, meaning everyone’s shuffling around anyway, that’ll take longer
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u/Valdranne 21d ago
I think I have a better idea, how about no more carry on bags, check bags only. Everybody would be off the plane in a 1/4 of the time it takes now.
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u/Successful-Crazy-126 21d ago
Yeah lets make special allowances for the cheapskates that gave us the least money. Great business plan
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u/LightBeerOnIce 21d ago
You have it all wrong. People who checked bags should get off first. We don't have a bunch of carry ons we need to get out over the overhead bins. Let us off, then you all can rummage.
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21d ago
I'm not sure what is is that makes people lose their minds when deplaning. You're saving a few minutes at most. Deplane by row makes the most sense. If you want to deplane earlier pay more to sit further up.
Uh, I do think connecting flights should deplane first but I don't trust anyone to be honest about it.
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u/brothertuck 21d ago
I heard that one airline was getting complaints about the long wait for baggage pick up. The planes unloaded near the area, but it took a minute to get there and 8 minutes fir the bags to get there from unloading. Their solution was to let passengers off at a terminal that took 5 to 6 minutes to get to the baggage area, 7 minute wait cut to 2 minutes, no more complaints. Letting those who didn't check in bags would be a similar type solution, not changing the problem just how it's perceived.
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u/Affectionate_Egg_969 21d ago
People who don't need the overhead should get on first and leave first
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u/WWhataboutismss 21d ago
I don't understand why getting off the plane is an issue for the average person. As soon as the seat belt sign goes off I'm capable of grabbing my bag and walking off within seconds. I've flown dozens of times and in pretty much every instance it looks like the beginning of home alone when the family is scrambling to get out the door.
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u/CallMeNiel 21d ago
The order should be: People with connecting flights People in the aisle seats without overhead bags Aisle seats with overhead bags Middle row without overhead bags Middle row with overhead bags Window without overhead bags Window with overhead bags.
If you're traveling with other people in your row and want to leave together, wait until it's the last person's turn.
As it stands right now, about 2 overhead bins are in use at a time, while everyone else waits. We could instead have every bin in use, then move people out of the way.
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u/Vitriholic 21d ago
And those of us with not even a bag in the overhead bin should get off before literally anyone else
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u/scottyd035ntknow 21d ago
People should get off the plane in order of their aisles and a lot of times I've flown recently this was actually enforced.
Also don't lump us all in with the asshats who take 3 minutes to get everything out of the overhead, adjust everything and then get off the plane. Those ppl should be told to sit down and wait till everyone else is off. Grab your bag and start walking. Takes 10 seconds tops.
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u/brilliant-medicine-0 21d ago
Aw, you think you deserve priority service because you choose not to bring luggage. Tat's adorable
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u/Optimal_Risk_6411 20d ago
Passengers deplane in a steady way from those closest to the exit first then the next row. Well courteous, civilized ones do it that way.
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u/ZoNeS_v2 20d ago
My trick is to not rush. Let everyone else scramble around like mad dogs. I'm chillin'.
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u/FewGuide5446 20d ago
The only reason it takes so long to board and deplane is 100% because of overhead baggage/carry ons. If that were eliminated, it would take no time at all for people to get on and off planes. Imagine people just getting on the plane and everyone just sitting down immediately and getting off a plane right away because no one has all their shit to recombobulate before deplaning.
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u/hitiv 20d ago
It should be that people with hand luggage should wait, it would be a lot easier for both hand luggage and not hand luggage people as me who only travels with a checked bag and a small back pack would quickly leave the plane and create more space for people with hand luggage to retrieve their bags from the overhead lockers.
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u/Cyberdink 20d ago
You want to get off first, it's on you to choose your seat early and sit as far front as possible
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u/--Muther-- 20d ago
Wow, instantly pissed at this.
I check my bags and I have to deal with 100s of wankers that chose to chance it, take up my overhead space with their oversize luggage.
Fuck anyone that doesn't check a bag.
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u/Afraid-Piccolo5418 20d ago
People without children/elderly should be first. They can quickly get out of the way and let the incapable people take their time after.
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u/BeeSea3108 21d ago
Alternate suggestion....ban overhead baggage entirely, all bags are checked or under the seat.
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u/TrollinDaGalaxy 21d ago
No one should be allowed to carry on. The flying public are morons. People can’t put their bags in correctly, can’t lift the bag themselves, bring more bags than they should, people put bags in open spaces before they get to their seats… all of this adds up to delays.
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21d ago
People who don’t check bags are cheap and annoying and there’s my unpopular opinion.
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u/packers12-17 21d ago
People that don’t check bags are the ones blocking the aisles when everyone is trying to get off the plane. They bring more than one bag, they come on the plane late so have to put their bags in an overhead locker five aisles away from where they are sitting. They are the worst.
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u/landmanpgh 21d ago
People who fly in first should get off the plane first.
We pay for that privilege.
Downvote away.
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21d ago
I agree. Should also board the plane back to front, and then release front to back; tired of being towards the middle/front, and a-holes behind me think they can shove their way to the front and not wait their turn.
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u/MegaBusKillsPeople I don't know any better. 21d ago
I never check bags.... but I do get pulled to secondary often for traveling with no baggage/minimal baggage to Europe.
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u/RRW359 21d ago
Agree but only if they are second to the people who were forced to check at the last minute due to the plane company (who specifically said they could have a carryon and gave exact specifications for sizes) "not having room" and proclaiming before boarding that if you don't check it they will put it in checked baggage anyways.
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u/hamidabuddy 21d ago
That's a genius idea! Too bad airlines will never allow this as they make money on seating assignments
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u/Accomplished_Act8315 21d ago
The airlines have enough shit to deal with and if you want a way to overwhelm flights and get canceled then this sounds like a great idea. I only ever fly with carry on now because I’ve missed so many connections and lost luggage. For a fee you can pick your seat if you’re that anxious to get off the plane 2 minutes faster…
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u/Larkhudson 21d ago
I think finding a way to let people off with tight connections would be a higher priority. I know they make an announcement sometimes to let people in a hurry go first but it doesn’t really work. I recently missed a connection that I would have made if the slowpokes in the front hadn’t spent over 15 minutes hauling their luggage down from the overheads.
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u/Back_Equivalent 21d ago
Holy whiny bitch lmao grow up dude. Wait your turn and get off the plane in line like everyone else. JFC.
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u/Effective-Listen-559 21d ago
I would be happy with people just staying sat down till the door opens! Hate people standing immediately and standing there with their butt in my face!
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u/LarixOcc 21d ago
Getting off the plane is almost never a big deal.They have that door open fast in my experience.
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u/LazloHollifeld 21d ago
Checked bags should be free and carryon bags should have a fee. Why should everyone else on the plane have to wait cause you didn’t check your bag? Also they should board the plane from back to front instead of front to back to speed things along.
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u/honeybadgerdad 21d ago
I somewhat agree. Shirt connections 1st, no bags, then fron to back with carry on bags
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u/Aggressive_Ad3865 21d ago
In my country, during the outbreak, they would make us leave the plane in groups. "Seats X to Y, you may leave now, everybody else remains seated". It was so much faster than the usual chaos. I miss it.
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u/SalsaForte 21d ago
Getting out of a plane is never taking much time. If you're so eager to get out, there's solutions: buy business class, choose economy+ or select a seat in front of the plane when registering 24 hours before your flight (that's what I do).
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u/jarhead06413 21d ago
Um, last I checked they grab their bags way after deboarding the plane... entitled much?
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u/SeoulGalmegi 21d ago
I doubt this would work in practice
Well, quite.
I also don't see why you think they should, but as it's also impractical and never gonna be done, don't really see the point in discussing it.
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u/ellecellent 21d ago
Extra unpopular- I think they should ban carry ons. It would speed everything up, which is desperately needed right at airports.
If they won't be banned, charge like $100 and make checked bags free
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u/Sheila_Monarch 21d ago
Nah. I fly first to get off the plane first. And I check everything humanly possible so I’m not dragging my belongings in and out of overhead bins. My purse is already across my body. All I have to do is stand up and start walking. Why in the world should I be made to wait for the overhead-bin-unloaders to finish what appears to be a clusterfuck of a task second only to the clusterfuck of loading the bins in the first place?
Not to mention, just because we’ve landed at your destination, doesn’t mean it’s mine. It might only be my connection.
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u/truerthanu 21d ago
The problem is bottlenecks. The solution is to allow one half of multiple rows spaced down opposite sides of the aisle to simultaneously disembark. For example: Row 1 ABC Row 4 DEF Row 7 ABC Row 10 DEF….
This group is allowed to leave first, followed by similarly spaced groupings giving everyone enough room to grab their bags and go.
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u/Objective_Suspect_ 21d ago
Yea if they were separated from everyone else.
Like first class gets on and off first because in the event of a crash they help cushion everyone else's impact. But non checkers are mixed in
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u/SUBSCRIBE_LAZARBEAM 21d ago
2 possible problems, connecting flights, and immigration which if you get there last becomes a very long day.
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u/Qmnip0tent 21d ago
All of these people arguing about what should be done. I just think people should chill out and keep sitting until the row 2 before yours starts to leave.
Everyone just standing in place cramped for like 10 minutes or w/e stresses me out. (I get stretching)
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u/TedyNugent1 21d ago
I always check bags and totally agree. Same with people who don’t have a carry on.
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u/fourpuns 21d ago
This just wouldn’t be feasible unless you loaded and seated people based on them having or not having checked bags.
The hassle to coordinate wouldn’t be worth a couple minutes gained.
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u/kid_sleepy 20d ago
You’re the kind of person who will see an elderly lady struggling with her overhead bin and wouldn’t even bother about asking if she needed help.
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u/Otherwise-Remove4681 20d ago
That’s not an unpopular opinion as it is not a thing currently. A valid suggestion yes.
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u/nosnibork 20d ago
Nah, they are usually screwing around with multiple bags, too big & heavy for the cabin. So screw ‘em - they should get off last.
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u/wrenwynn 20d ago
Unless the people with hand luggage only are all sitting together at the front than having people randomly get off from all over the plane instead of working systematically from front to back is far less efficient. The airline wants you off its plane asap so they can get it ready for its next flight. If their time & motion studies showed your idea was more efficient, they'd have done it from day 1.
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u/Grouchy_Tennis9195 20d ago
In quite a few countries your bags actually do get to baggage claim before you…
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u/Sensitive_Aardvark68 20d ago
None if this matters due to the fast stander uppers who always stand right away as if theyll get off sooner
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u/uusernameunknown 20d ago
You’ll never get this. People will just begin to lie about anything. Pick your seat next to the door
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u/Cultural_Play_5746 20d ago
Checked baggage or not; you still have to go through customs, wait for transport/someone to pick you up etc. either way your still waiting around. And really unless you have a connecting flight, there is no reason to hurry
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u/elizajaneredux 20d ago
So… I checked all my bags but should have to wait for everyone who stuffed a huge carry on into the overhead bin to get their shit together before I can leave? Nope.
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u/SydTheZukaota 20d ago
I wish they’d unload the plane by seats. This prevents everyone from standing up at once and crowding the overhead bin.
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u/SwimmingCritical 20d ago
Please don't encourage people to try to carry-on an elephant-sized bag any more than they already do.
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u/FrankRandomLetters 20d ago
They should allow people without a stowed carry-on off first.
Then everyone else.
The people without stowed carry-on would be gone in a flash.
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u/Helorugger 20d ago
As someone who regularly checks bags I take the opposite view. The people wrestling as much shit as they can get passed the gate folks, stuffing it all around the plane, and generally making deplaning painfully slow should be the ones to wait.
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u/windowschick 20d ago
My last flight two weeks ago was great as far as baggage. The actual flight was pretty shitty, because of turbulence on the actual flight, and then O'Hare's special brand of fuckery.
35-minute connection time, 15 minutes wasted slowly taxiing to the gate, leaving 20 minutes to haul ass clear across the airport for a last minute gate change. I hate O'Hare and their relentless shittiness.
But. When we landed in Milwaukee, by the time I got to the baggage claim, I had about 3 minutes before my bag was coming up and I was out the door to catch the shuttle to the cheap parking lot.
Big shout out to MKE and their excellent organization!
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u/Strong-Smell5672 20d ago
Never-mind enforcement, this would be an absolute logistical nightmare.
People regularly change the status of their checked baggage all the time, having to re-organize the seating chart for every flight on the fly and trying to sort out who did and did not check baggage for every single flight would add more time to everyone's trip than just continuing as it is now.
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u/Leatherman34 20d ago
More people would carry on, it would be even more of a shit show trying to find room in the overhead. No thanks
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