THE real reason airlines still board planes from front to back despite it causing huge aisle queues has been revealed. Passengers have long found boarding one of the most tiresome parts of flying - but an astrophysicist thinks there's a better way. 1 Travel experts have revealed why airlines board plans from front to back Credit: Getty Experts from Travel + Leisure helped to explain why the confusing practice remains in place.
They said: "More often than not, airlines use a process called block boarding to load passengers onto a plane . "In this system, each passenger is assigned a zone, and one zone boards at a time. "In block boarding, the zones aren't necessarily separated by rows on the plane; they're actually designated based on factors like cabin class, frequent flier status, whether or not you hold an airline credit card, and fare class.
" This means that passengers at the front of the aircraft, where first and business-class cabins are usually located, tend to be allowed to board first. Thanks to this priority system, the plane fills up front to back, resulting in the long queues in the aisle that holidaymakers have become all too used to. The experts claimed that airlines use this system to encourage passengers to pay more to book higher-class seats to buy their way to priority boarding.
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