Dummy deplaning etiquette

There is no good explanation. They're insulted when people innocuously move ahead of them. They're probably mad when someone merges into their lane 500 feet ahead of their car too.

It reminds me of a certain cultural conservativism of let's say a profession. The profession forces all entry level workers to be horribly abused and mistreated and forced to work insane hours. And, the people who make it through that insist on those policies continuing because it validates the sunk cost of having gone through that hazing process or toughening process themselves.

So, by analogy, you suffered through the pain of waiting your turn, now you're going to pass on the punishment so it feels more "worth it." "You slow idiots made me wait an extra 2 minutes to deplane. Now, I'm going to return the favor by wasting an extra 20 seconds of everyone's time by insisting that my each and every one one of my family deplanes at their own mellow pace." That kind of idea.

"a guy standing in the aisle letting an older lady sitting at the window stand up"

To me it's just good manners. I travel internationally once a month or so, usually for work. Sometimes I am in a hurry, but courtesy is important, so I have no problem waiting. Imm

Someone wasn't taught by his mother to wait his turn. Instead, it's me, me, me. I'm more important than anyone else. Get out of my way, I'm coming through. In my day, a kid like that would get a lesson impressed on him by his peers at recess on the first day of school.

Now multiply that selfish bull in a china shop by 250 passengers all wanting to push past everyone else ahead of them. Pure chaos that ends up taking even longer to deplane all of the passengers. Not to mention frayed tempers and possibly injuries. You are not special. Everyone else wants off that plane too.

Grown ups call it courtesy and common sense. Apparently a foreign concept to some.

I bellieve this poster is using AI. His other responses has incorrect information and sounds more like articles than actual experience.

I've asked the webmaster to look into it?

Nah. Looking closely at the original post and their other posts, they read more like a human typing in a chaotic rush rather than AI text. The phrasing has an emotionally driven stream of consciousness and lacks the structural fluff or predictable overused buzzwords usually seen with generated content.

Having said that, it seems unnecessary to drag up a closed, two year old thread just to call out a previous poster by name. Addressing old comments to critique a specific person doesn't really move a discussion forward. Remember "Be unfailingly polite."

I do get your rationale, but I don't follow it. First of all, because, like the others, I like being polite and letting people out when it's their turn. But second, let's say there's a woman who's very slow, sitting by the window, and it's going to take her probably a minute or two to get up and get out. You decide to go ahead. That somehow gives a signal to the ones behind you that it's okay to move forward. Pretty soon, that woman is standing there stuck in her row while everyone walks past her up the aisle, and she now has to wait for an opening—or until some polite person stops and lets her out.

The only way I would justify something like that is if you are really in danger of not making a connection. I would explain to the woman, "I'm sorry, but I have to go ahead because my next flight is going to take off soon," or something like that.

But overall, is getting an extra minute for yourself really worth it?

Actually one of the interesting things I've observed during disembarkation is how polite people are. I can't remember the last time something just pushed past - people do generally wait politely. And I frequently see people offer to take down bags from overhead compartments for passengers who are struggling.

Equally cabin crew generally announce when some passengers have tight connections, and people will stay out of the aisles to allow them to pass.

If you sat and waited for the person in the aisle behind you to go ahead before getting up, you would never get out.

Better question is why the guy in the last row, window seat, gets up and tries to bum rush to be the first out, then gets angry when someone else gets into the aisle, stopping his exit?

If you are in the back half, just have some patience, you aren't getting out first, damn the delays, the decision to plan a tight connection, just accept what it is. Have a little patience and act politely, it maintains the social fabric.

I will add, you see a big difference between American domestic flights and European intra-Schengen. In the US, before the plane even comes to a stop, you hear the seatbelts unclicking, usually a FA telling people to remain seated, and even before the seatbelt light turns off the aisles are full, and people trying to push through. I have been on some flights within Europe that are almost surreal, the plane pulls up to the gate, and almost no one stands up, people just file out in seat row order, quickly and quietly. That certainly is not all flights (tends to be major carrier flights (KLM/AF) and not the budgets like Ryanair, though Ryanair usually uses both the front and rear doors.

Actually one of the interesting things I've observed during
disembarkation is how polite people are. I can't remember the last
time something just pushed past - people do generally wait politely.
And I frequently see people offer to take down bags from overhead
compartments for passengers who are struggling. Equally cabin crew
generally announce when some passengers have tight connections, and
people will stay out of the aisles to allow them to pass.

Simon, I had to quote your entire post because it is one of the most accurate and under reported observations I have read here in a long time. Thank you.