Anyone who flies often knows the chaos that is deplaning an aircraft. The instant that seat belt light goes off (or sometimes before) people are up in the aisle grabbing bags and jockeying for position. With tight connections to make and often late arrivals, I understand the stress. I’ve been there myself.
But it is refreshing to see something so completely different you wonder it was staged.
Oil Workers Orderly Deplaning
Check out this video of a WestJet charter flight for oil rig employees deplaining. There is no rush. There is no stress. Simply row-by-row calm deplaning of the aircraft. Can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like it.
Fascinating video showing passengers disembarking a @Westjet flight one row at time. This is an oil rig employee charter flight from Calgary to Fort MacKay/Firebag in northern Alberta. pic.twitter.com/drUYsxSsRq
— Tom Podolec Aviation (@TomPodolec) July 27, 2019
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Such a stark contrast to the typical experience. Most flights I’ve been on at least (roughly) go row-by-row. But often you’ll get a rude passenger that pushes through everyone to get off sooner. ‘Casue saving 20 seconds is just that important.
Have you ever had a deplaning experience this orderly?
Featured image courtesy of Bradley Gordon via Flickr under CC-BY-2.0 license.
This comes from corporate culture and traveling together so frequently. Everyone has adopted this habit, it’s reinforced every week and becomes the accepted way. Newcomers would adopt it after one trip. It would never happen this way if the passengers were always strangers.
That makes sense. It’s just surreal to see.
I take a regional public transit bus to Denver every day. Getting off is exactly like this: each row stands up only when it’s their turn to get off the bus, no one crashes the aisle. Amazing. We don’t all travel together on the same bus every day, since the bus comes every 10 minutes, but there is still a common culture.
Nice to hear people are still thoughtful! The aisle-crashing is definitely an unfortunate reality of most air travel.
Guess they all know they have to see each other later so why make someone else angry
Very true!