Start up wants to accelerate boarding

Boarding is tedious: the passengers often each Other to stand on your feet. A young company wants to provide a remedy.

In airlines, time is money. Lot of money. They can perform more flights per day, the more they earn. And try the company among other things, to reduce the downtime at airports. The decisive factor is the duration of climbing up. Boarding takes usually between 10 and 20 minutes and is responsible in the Short race for a third to half the time.

Even if the transfer process is so important - still no one so far has found the ideal method that brings something both airlines and passengers. Especially on random is used in Europe. The passengers go into a random order. In the United States, putting especially on the boarding zones. While the passengers in the back of left in the aircraft first, then in the middle and then the front. Both methods are not ideal.

11 instead of 17 minutes in an A320

Academics around the globe for a long time engaged in the topic. Most of the time they come to the same conclusion. First the window seats to prove with advantage gap wise from behind forward, goes the fastest. So it makes such as the so-called Steffen method, named after the physicist Jason Steffen. He can enter the passengers at the window first. However may not all one after the other on the plane, but alternately. So first of all about the seats 12A, 10A, 8A and 6A. This is followed by the series 11A, 9A and 7A. As a result, passengers have more space and not interfere.

The Swiss start-up D Dyna has now developed a new method which is based on it. Instead of assigning the seats in advance, the software D Dyna Board assigns the seats the passengers directly at the gate. So, the order of the allocated places can be controlled. The software can control the boarding so that passengers are not mutually come get in the way. «Today needs with 180 passengers around 17 minutes boarding in an A320. We make it into 11 minutes», says Daniel Trutmann d Dyna (see above video animation).

Seat reservation can still

Families and groups can sit still together. D Dyna program allocates just side by side places them. Passengers can also continue to reserve seats at the time of booking, if they wish. These are then reserved for these passengers. «On the boarding period that has no great influence», so Tan. Even if a third of all passengers choose a place enough optimization possibilities remained.

Want to participate at Zurich airport in a test of the new solution from D Dyna? On 22 November the company is looking for more extras. The Air Berlin subsidiary Belair provides to an Airbus A320. Check-in is between 12:00 and 12:45. The event lasts until 16:00. Participants get a snack and take part in a draw. Registration here.

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