"You can't catch us all!"

You couldn't get away with just doing a carry on? It would have to be a 2+ week trip for me going through the hell of checking a bag.

This sounds like you've never missed a connecting flight. There are plenty of reasons people want to get off the plane.

Literally the fundamental attribution fallacy

If your connection is that tight then it's que sera sera and you knew that when you booked. People are not out there conspiring to be slow to make you late. Grow up.

Literally me 6 hours ago

You aren't in traffic. You are traffic.

I'm like you. People look at me weird while I just sit there letting everyone get off. There's usually a couple of people who try to be polite and gesture that I can get in line behind them. I thank them, and say no. When the aisle clears, I get up and walk off, skipping the bullshit jostling and shuffling of the impatient cattle.

During one flight, I really had to deposit a shit while the aircraft was making it's way to the gate. The worst part, the terminal in Frankfurt am Main was under construction and most of the WC's were closed!

I've had an 8 hour layover dropped to 45 minutes before. You genuinely don't know the length of your layover until your first plane lands regardless of what you booked.

A wee bit of claustrophobia doesn’t help either. I’ll happily jump out of the plane anytime but sitting in a small metal tube for hours is not fun.

Could be some folks might have to catch a second plane and the timing is really close. Unfamiliar airport layout sometimes puts your connecting flight on the opposite side of the airport and it departs in 10 mins. I would be in a hurry to get off and reach my connecting flight in time.

This is just one scenario. Each person is different. Some people have travel anxiety etc.

Pretty easy to understand once you open up to the idea that you don’t know each person’s day, schedule or disorder ‍️

Found the problem, this guy right here.

I am insanely confused by this comment. So it slows down deboarding for some people to be already standing with their things ready to move forward, and speeds things up for literally everyone to first have to stand and then get their things? Seems like a fraction of the plane being ready when the doors open would inevitably speed things up a little. Sidenote: the real dickheads imo are the ones who get up and then move up to the front of the plane. They are effectively skipping line to get off and it's such a dick move. I want to strangle people who do that.

But back to the post, what OP and I seem to notice is just how damned slow people are. If I have a window seat and a bag overhead, it still probably takes me under 15 seconds to go from seated to having my bag and moving. I watch people toward the front take FOREVER to do the same thing. Then they have a bunch of kids and that magnifies the issue even more.

Happened to me at STT. I think they ended up on a dedicated baggage flight or something, because they didn’t come off my plane. Thought they’d been lost and started freaking out, turns out they’d been there for a while already and had been set aside. Wish I’d been on the flight without the layover.

I honestly think most people are twice as slow as me, and it adds up so fast. I am always so ready to get off the plane but it seems like most people aren't for some reason? They must enjoy the cramped farttube experience much more than I do. I've often just spent hours with some asshole rubbing up against my elbow and I'm ready to gtfo.

And then they run out of overhead room, so they check your bag for free anyway.

So they miss out on the revenue, slow things down, and add logistical complexity to a process that is already notorious for losing track of critical items.

And what if your first flight gets delayed by several hours for any number of reasons?

I'm with you. Shitty ass airlines sometimes will force you to check your bag, and I even recently had them do this when the overhead bins remained half empty. Infuriating!

Thank you. I had to look it up:

Fundamental attribution error - Wikipedia

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