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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Because in America the airlines have monetized the boarding process and it makes them lots of money. You have people explicitly paying directly for priority boarding. Then you have the people paying higher fares on each of their flights to achieve their loyalty status for the priority boarding. Then you have the people signing up for the credit cards to get priority boarding, and airlines in the us are actually financially speaking more so credit card companies than airlines.

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