‘Tis the season for airplane travel. We may be looking forward to getting where we’re going, but most aspects of the travel itself are merely endured. There’s stressful security, the madding crowd, and the scrum at boarding, where people and their myriad belongings clog the gate area, standing between you and your departure.
But take heart: There are scientifically proven ways to improve the boarding process or at least speed it up so that it can be over and done with more quickly. One big contributor to the logjam is the common airline policy to charge for checked baggage, leading passengers to bring aboard more, and more fully packed, luggage. All these carry-ons take time to stow. The fuller the plane becomes, the longer it takes to put the luggage away—like a not-very-fun version of Tetris.
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