Research Article

A Simplified Model to Assess the Influence of the Configuration of Commercial Aircraft on Boarding and Deboarding

Table 3

Comparison of boarding times for the three aircraft configurations using the random outside-in boarding strategy.

ConfigurationBoarding times (min:sec)STD deviationTime reduction (%)Time reduction (min:sec)
50%95%

6:547:230:17——
6:427:060:162.90%/3.83%0:12/0:17
6:276:570:166.52%/5.87%0:27/0:26