| Article ID: | iaor20102875 |
| Volume: | 36 |
| Issue: | 5 |
| Start Page Number: | 597 |
| End Page Number: | 601 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2008 |
| Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
| Authors: | Bachmat Eitan, Elkin Michael |
We provide bounds on the performance of back-to-front airplane boarding policies. In particular, we show that no back-to-front policy can be more than 20% better than the policy which boards passengers randomly.