Reddit user sparks debate after about how slow people are during deplaning process on flight

A Reddit user has sparked a fierce debate online after posting a scathing rant about how slow people are during the deplaning process on a flight.

The traveler, who goes by username romantic_thinkerof New Mexico, recently went on a tirade against people who take too long to get their bag out of the overhead compartment and off a plane after they caught a Delta flight from San Francisco to their home state, sparking a lot of discussion among other users. of social networks.

‘Why do people take SO LONG to get off a plane?’ he asked in the post, which was shared earlier this week.

‘Stand up, take your bag from the overhead compartment and walk. Why does it seem like it takes so long for most people to execute this simple maneuver?

His question generated hundreds of comments from other passengers, some of whom shared his frustration and others who insisted that it was not the passengers’ fault, but rather the aircraft’s design.

‘If you insert a person with a hint of dysfunction and lack of awareness, the whole system crashes,’ wrote one person.

‘It’s the newbies, the kids, the old and the very inconsiderate that take forever,’ someone else said.

“It’s always amazing how a fairly high percentage of people are in no particular rush and just take their time getting their stuff out of overhead storage,” another user added.

“I’ll never forget the moment a man put on his jacket and began to slowly button it up in the aisle preventing the entire plane from getting out,” another person recalled.

‘The anger was immense. I was trying to figure out what to say, but I was silent.

‘It’s a Starbucks line effect. Everyone impatiently wants the people in front of them to move faster, and then once it’s their turn, it’s like they have no idea where their bag is or where the exit is,” joked one commenter.

‘Because people are idiots and don’t pay attention to their surroundings. I am also convinced that the average traveler’s IQ drops 50 percent as soon as he arrives on airport property,” another disgruntled person wrote.

“If you need help, if you’re old, if you have kids or some other reason holding you back, you can go through this, but if you’re just a jerk ** taking your time because you don’t give a damn.” To hell with the other 100+ people behind you, or you don’t even realize you’re the one holding the whole plane up – you suck,’ a different comment read.

Someone else shared: ‘I’ve missed two [connecting] flights so far due to absolutely clueless assholes taking their time to assemble their doo-doo and get their asses off the plane.

‘Absolutely infuriating. That being said, if more people would be nice and offer to help the elderly/disabled get their luggage off the roof, the disembarkation time would be cut in half.

“Too often I see people in their 20s and 30s” staring at their phones while the 75-year-old woman across from them grunts and groans trying to get her 20-pound carry-on off her head. Even more infuriating.

Others, however, said that if the airline were more organized or if the plane had wider aisles, the delay would never happen.

‘Everyone stands up at the same time to grab bags. Chaos ensues because bags are not always directly next to or on top of people, and because there is less aisle space than necessary for everyone to get up at once,” another comment read.

Someone else responded: ‘Because overhead space is so limited, a lot of people have to put their bags away from them.’

Another person claimed that the delay was due to the fact that you usually have to wait ’15 minutes for the doors to open’.

Another Reddit user said that they had figured out a way to bypass the process. They wrote: ‘I also found this infuriating, so I had an idea.

“Now I usually sit and wait for the plane to empty, then walk away past those same dilly-dalliers walking around the terminal.

‘If I checked a bag, there’s no point in rushing, just waiting on the baggage carousel. If I don’t have a bag, just carry-on, I’ve usually passed the slow ones when I get to the exit gate of the terminal.

“Most time wasters are inexperienced travelers, so flying to Orlando is like flying to hell.”

Someone else explained that the long waiting time cannot be avoided as there are simply too many people on board.

‘A Delta 737 has about 180 people in the three cabins when it’s full. Let’s give everyone 10 seconds to get their shit together and start walking down the aisle.

‘That’s 1,800 seconds or 30 minutes to empty the plane. So relax. I fly over 100,000 miles a year and it never took me 30 minutes to deplane.

“If you think 10 seconds per person is too long, you should shell out the cash to ride in the front row of your flights.”

In 2014, a study by Northwestern found that disembarkation times would be reduced by 35 percent if airlines made people exit by seat type rather than by row.

That means all the people sitting in the aisle seats would go first, followed by the middle seats, and then the window seats.

“The only really efficient use of the aisle and overhead bins is right when the plane is first parked, and all aisle seat passengers can lower their bags at once without blocking others.” vox reported during the discussion of the results.

‘This delete method would replicate this step for the entire process. All middle and window seat passengers would have one minute in the aisle to lower their bags without blocking the people behind them.

“At any given time, the use of corridor space and overhead compartments would be maximized, and the line would be blocked for a much shorter period of time.”

However, the problem with this method would mean that families sitting together would be separated.