\”Left aisle seats, please rise and move to your luggage. (Pause.) Left aisle seats, please retrieve your luggage. (Pause.) Left aisle seats, please deplane. (Pause.) Right aisle seats, please rise and move to your luggage...\”″
To me, getting off the plane fast is less important than watching everyone who may touch my luggage.
Many planes have unequal ratio of storage area to seats on the left and right, and water bottles and various things are already in some of them. People sometimes put their luggage on the side opposite of their seat and/or more forward or backward than expected. It is common for people on both sides of the plane to open their opposite storage area.
If I had a window seat and could not see where I put my luggage, I would want to stand up immediately to watch it. If I did not, it would be easy for someone to unzip parts of it and move 1 thing to their luggage.
Many people will say I am paranoid or need to trust people more or that the punishment for stealing on a plane is so high that it would be rare. They may be right, but neither of us has calculated the chance of that, and waiting an extra few minutes on each flight, summed over all flights I will ever take, takes less time than to calculate that. I would not save any time in the best case. If a small number of people could do that calculation and everybody believe it, time could be saved, but I could not believe them without taking the time to calculate their motivations, and that would also take more time than I could save.
“How would I do it? Off the top of my head:
\”Left aisle seats, please rise and move to your luggage. (Pause.) Left aisle seats, please retrieve your luggage. (Pause.) Left aisle seats, please deplane. (Pause.) Right aisle seats, please rise and move to your luggage...\”″
To me, getting off the plane fast is less important than watching everyone who may touch my luggage.
Many planes have unequal ratio of storage area to seats on the left and right, and water bottles and various things are already in some of them. People sometimes put their luggage on the side opposite of their seat and/or more forward or backward than expected. It is common for people on both sides of the plane to open their opposite storage area.
If I had a window seat and could not see where I put my luggage, I would want to stand up immediately to watch it. If I did not, it would be easy for someone to unzip parts of it and move 1 thing to their luggage.
Many people will say I am paranoid or need to trust people more or that the punishment for stealing on a plane is so high that it would be rare. They may be right, but neither of us has calculated the chance of that, and waiting an extra few minutes on each flight, summed over all flights I will ever take, takes less time than to calculate that. I would not save any time in the best case. If a small number of people could do that calculation and everybody believe it, time could be saved, but I could not believe them without taking the time to calculate their motivations, and that would also take more time than I could save.