VSM's and level loading

Airplane boarding process, making a VSM:

 Here is a VSM of an airport's boarding system:

Level-Loading an airport boarding process.

 In the VSM, you can see that the boarding process is not very level-loaded. For starters when the operator calls the passengers to board based on their seating, it takes roughly 6.2 minutes to finally just get your ticket scanned. Or it would take roughly 7.3 minutes to get from checking your tickets to stowing your baggage. This unevenness is considered the opposite of lean. Keeping in mind that Level-loading is just a small part of lean.

In terms of level loading I would try to make the two mentioned above more efficient, and then possibly combine luggage stowing and seating, into one, more efficient process. Also, I would even try to make all the seats, luggage compartments, aisles etc., on all the planes, the same for standardization. Because many people travel often, and arguably if everything was exactly the same, it would be easier, and more efficient for people to eventually stow their luggage, and be sitting down.

Overall, airplane boarding is not a good example of lean just due to the small aspect of Level-Loading.