[QUOTE=golfing eagles;2353141]This might not be popular, but IMHO, the problem with boarding (and eventual deplaning) is not assigned seats vs. group free for all boarding, it's the ever increasing competition for overhead carry-on bin space. Back in the sixties and early seventies, there were no overhead bins---all luggage had to be checked. A full plane could board in 5 minutes. Now, we have people tripping over one another, cheating on wheelchairs, and trying to sneak more than one carry-on aboard.
If it were up to me, I'd rip out all the overhead bins and go back to the way it was in years gone by."
Those overhead bins are all too often the subject of rule-bending. I don't know though about ripping them out: often families with young children have necessities in their carryons that they need accessing during flights. But...stricter rules for sure.
Agree about the boarding though. Stricter regulation of carryons would certainly help that. The best boarding I've ever seen was at a layover in Taipei. When it came time to board (747), the first class passengers got to go first, then everybody else. Two jetways, and as I recall your seat number indicated which jetway you used. But that was the only differentiation. As I recall we boarded over 300 people in maybe 10 minutes.
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