ELI5.Why are airplanes boarded front to back?

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Currently standing in terminal and the question arises, wouldn’t it make sense to load the back first? It seems inefficient to me waiting for everyone in the rows ahead to get seated when we could do it the other way around. I’m sure there’s a reason, but am genuinely curious. Thoughts?

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People are generally lazy and inconsiderate. If you load from the back to the front, the lazy inconsiderate people will put their overhead luggage in the first bin they come across, and walk to the back.

So then when you load the front people last, they have to walk to the back to find a bin and then forward to their seats.

And before you say “then the flight attendants need to enforce this!”, consider how rude and entitled people are and how little authority flight attendants actually have.

So it’s easier to just load the front people first. Also they paid more for their seats so they should be able to get in and get settled first.

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