Friday February 08, 2008 at 15:30
“Conventional wisdom would suggest that boarding from the front to the back is the worst case but that boarding from the back to the front is optimal or nearly so. […] The worst boarding method is, indeed, to board the plane from front to back. As I will show, however, boarding the airplane from the back to the front is very likely the second worst method.”
— Jason H. Steffen, “Optimal boarding method for airline passengers”