"We reacted very quickly and tried to prevent these characters from boarding on to the ship, but unfortunately by the time we reacted, some of them had already succeeded and accessed the ship and had even managed to reach the cabin crew area,"
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American tested the idea in seven cities earlier this year and found getting people without overhead bin luggage on early sped up boardingtime and improved on-time arrival performance.
They also emphasised there was a distinction between "dwell time", which is defined as the time between the wheels stopping and moving again, and "boarding time", which is defined as the time during which people were passing through the bus doors.