The “bitter” boarding method airlines won't use🧂😅 | QI - BBC

Taking a look at queuing theory, Sandi Toksvig tries to explain a method which could make queuing for a flight much more efficient, but Alan Davies has bitter ideas.

QI | Series Q Episode 3 | BBC

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[taylorhancock]

This episode is brought to you by CGP Grey...

[kubaskrzypkowski]

RIP CGP Grey. Try competing with the BBC

[MyLateralThawts]

According to my own studies, I actually learned the most inefficient way to board a plane was to ride in with your unicycle.

[ziyaaddhorat]

I thought this was the CGP grey vid cause I never saw the thumbnail.

[billyeveryteen]

Weight distribution is a surprisingly big deal on flights with few passengers. I once flew on a flight that only had about ten or fifteen passengers, and the flight attendants had to meticulously sit us all over the plane for the purposes of weight and balance.

Also, I used to work for an airline, and the absolute fastest we'd ever boarded the plane was when we were desperately trying to avoid a delay and basically just flung the doors open and just let everyone pile in all willy nilly. For weeks I tried to argue that we should board every flight like that, since it was the fastest we ever got everyone on the aircraft, but management wasn't into it.

[twotothehalf]

Love you, QI, but you've got massive screens. Show us this efficient, in-the-Celestia Steffan boarding method in action!

[BBC]

Thanks for all the feedback! 🙏 Title updated for clarity.

[burkenelson]

I will concede that boarding without seat assignments (like Southwest does here in the US) is more efficient, but I get so anxious when I don't have a specific seat assigned to me.

[ptitqui]

Good heavens folks. Just because they chatted about the same thing doesn’t mean they “stole” CGP Greys idea. I mean, it’s interesting information that is publicly available.

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1:41

I feel Alan has the best idea.

[jamesrockybullin]

Daym, been a long time since I heard the QI music. Forgot how much I loved it!

[ShadowRubberDuck]

Is that the guy who stole James May Identity?

[mscbijles]

With "a tv producer" I guess they mean the team from Mythbusters?

[Bigfoot_With_Internet_Access]

Well good thing I'm a sasquatch and don't ever fly, so I don't even have to worry about this stuff

[jessicalee]

Huh. So the title is the same as a CGP Grey video. Lots of people seem to care about that. Out of the many ways you could title a video about this exact subject, two videos went with the same one. The comments section is very concerned.


A surprising number of people think this whole video is ripped off from CGP Grey simply because they talk about the same topic and the same researcher who is an expert on that topic... those people don't know what ripping things off is - but you'll see people make that complaint any time some other channel talks about a topic that a channel they like has talked about at any point in the past. If that was what ripping things off was, then CGP Grey ripped off his video from Jason Steffen, the researcher who did all the work explaining this stuff in the first place.


PLAGIARISM!

[adrianscarlett]

If the airports all had a grid of squares with row numbers and seat letters on the floor at the departure gate, all the messing around could be done in an open space with no seats to get in the way. Just a thought.

[ASBS]

Sleepy people first so they can go to sleep 💤

[regan]

Everyone complaining about copying CGP Grey lmao. I agree that the title is a ripoff but Vox did a video on airplane boarding methods 4 years ago, even before CGP Grey did. So while I agree that the YouTube/social media account person needs to be more creative, the topic itself isn't "stolen". And even if the progress of how Sandi explains the experiment is similar, of course it is, because she's describing the procedure and the results. It's really not that big a deal.

[razsalutesyou]

Am I the only one who remembers mythbusters doing this years ago.

[Megamugu]

Anyone else thought the guy in the thumbnail was James may