Airplane Passengers Are Sheep

People in planes and airports are like sheep.

They also do things that make absolutely no sense to me whatsoever.

Typical scenario goes like this ..

Plane lands in airport and taxis to wherever it’s going to stop. It stops. The doors do not open immediately, as they have to wait for the groundcrew to their thing. Even if they’re using their own steps there’s usually a delay of a couple of minutes between the plane stopping and the door opening.

This is not novel.

This is normal.

So what happens with the passengers?

This is the bit I don’t get.

Bearing in mind that the doors are CLOSED.

They all stand up and start getting themselves tangled up trying to get off the plane (which still has closed doors).

Why is that?

Or what about when they’re in departures?

Even if the gate is CLOSED, they’ll all stand in a line waiting to get on the plane – even though:

• the gate isn’t open
• the plane isn’t going to go anywhere until they’ve got on board

Are they all sheep or is it just me?

Personally I prefer waiting in my seat in the plane until the people who are “in a hurry” have got out of the way. I’ll see them when they get stuck in customs anyway …