Talks about modeling loading strategies.... *Loading an Airliner Is Rocket Science * http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/business/14boarding.html?_r=1&ref=business&oref=slogin By PAUL BURNHAM FINNEY Spurred by financial pressures and packed planes — often 80 to 90 percent full — airlines have come up with a wide variation of passenger boarding techniques.
Airlines have been boarding passengers for decades, long enough, it would seem, to have figured out the best way to get people on and off a plane. But they haven't. -- tj ========================================== J. T. Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA www.analyticjournalism.com 505.577.6482(c) 505.473.9646(h) http://www.jtjohnson.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." -- Buckminster Fuller ==========================================
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