Originally Posted by
Jean-Lill
Boarding through 2 doors should be quicker providing the passengers obey the ground staff and board through the door they are directed to. My experience is as crew you get quite a few who ignore the instructions and board through the forward door regardless of where they are sitting.
We had a cracker last flight. Forward door area was not in use while the wheel chairs were boarded. Our coach went to the rear door and as we were in row 4 and the couple behind us were in row 2 we would have had to struggle the entire length of the aircraft.
Just as we mounted the steps the second coach arrived and its passengers were directed to the front door. It certainly would not have taken 7 minutes to sort out that problem.
Fortunately I spotted what was happening, got a nod from the GH, and we legged it to the front door.
Really the coaches should have been boarded in row order the same as for ramp or gangway boarding.