Surely the first one should be the other way around, as people without checked luggage can exit the airport right away without waiting at the baggage carousel?

Checked luggage.... so that they can get at the bag carousel faster and wait even longer? I think you mean let people with no carry-ons off first.

Why would people with checked luggage need to leave the plane first? They are going to be waiting 20~30 minutes for their suitcase at the conveyor belts. They can't hurry even if they wanted to.

People with connections deserve priority deboarding, especially when the first flight was delayed. Some times I've heard attendants saying to do this, but it never successfully happens

Seems rather racist to let black coffee drinkers have an express line.

The checked baggage one might make sense if it’s saying that passengers with only checked luggage should exit first. Those passengers would not need to rummage through the overhead bins. The idea still ignores the problem of other passengers themselves taking up space when shuffling around getting out of seats to do this, though.

If it somehow worked, it wouldn’t make getting out of the airport any faster, but it would make getting off the plane faster.

Everyone here is on about the luggage rule inversion.

The black coffee idea sounds pretty good at first, until you have to work on a typical espresso machine. After the 4th black coffee the next few teas, americanos or steamings are slow and crap. Unless you add water from a separate boiler, or it's a drip coffee.

First people off the plane should be those with tightest connections, though there's no way to prove that for some forms of transportation.

I could get behind a rush-time black-coffee-only line, but I almost never buy coffee out unless I'm on vacation anyway

We used to have entire coffee shops for black only.

Not sure what airports the OOP fellow has been to, but there are times I've been off the plane really quickly with checked luggage, and all I earn is a longer wait at baggage claim.

They aren't in any rush at Canadian airports.

As for the second, there are a myriad of ways to solve that problem:

• Brew your own coffee.
• Go to a coffee shop that doesn't have a dessert menu for a coffee list.
• If you must order at a large mainstream chain, order ahead.

It's maybe better to lock all overhead bins electrically until the door is open. Although there would be still people standing up waiting for the second the bins are unlocked.