I'm constantly amazed things like that can actually get off the ground
What scares me more though is the rumour that EasyJet have ordered one for flights to the states... can you imagine being on that plane?
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Wed 27 May 2009, 8:43, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

More to the point
can you imagine getting on to it? It's bad enough with the hordes of 'got to get on first' idiots on a bloody 737. I hate the boarding frenzy on EasyJet.

Mind you, human nature is a strange beast.

Why do people always queue up to get on a plane long before boarding starts, when they know they'll be called (in the case of proper airlines at least) by row number? Recently I was on a flight to the US and there was a huge queue of people waiting. I was sitting down minding my own business, but as I was close to the back of the plane, my row was in the first block called. So I got up, strolled past all the plonkers standing waiting, and went straight to the head of the queue.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 27 May 2009, 8:51, Reply)

*waves speedy boarding card*
It would be an absolute nightmare. EasyJet's systems don't work with the boarding system at Copenhagen, so if you check in online you get re-issued a boarding card at the gate. It always leads to a huge scrum of people fighting to get on... then when they call the speedy boarders, the look on people's faces as you just walk straight past them is great.

They'd need to get something sorted out for that size plane. People will still act like idiots first... it's not like rushing to get on the plane will make it leave any earlier, is it?
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Wed 27 May 2009, 9:01, Reply)

In fact, quite the reverse.
More haste, less speed.

Studies have shown that the best way to fill a plane is to start with each odd numbered window seat from rear to front, (you can stand in the even rows to let people past) then the even numbers, and then fill the middle and aisle seats in the same manner.

But can you imagine trying to get the general public to do this?

Not a bloody hope.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 27 May 2009, 9:12, Reply)