Are you telling me the best we could come up with is "de-plane-ing"?

disembark

unboard, deboard? ugh

There’s also “debark” and “alight”.

Specifically, I am talking about getting off the plane. So not as the plane takes off, leaves the gates, none of that.

All of the words I’ve mentioned mean to get off of a plane or other vehicle.

How about.. drumroll….......................... exit?

@aidje
If someone ever says “alight” to me, they will automatically get punched in the nose.

@Vinifera7 – Hey, I’m just answering the question. :-)

I’d say I disembark, but not that I disembark a plane; that is, it’s intransitive. So it’s not truly the opposite of “board.”

If I had to write “deplaning,” that’s how I’d spell it.

Well, here’s an essay about the word, in which the author suggests that “disembark” or “leave the plane” are perfectly good.

1933 Aeroplane 2 Aug. 218/1 The passengers..were out of the machine, which had been towed away from the passenger-deplaning area.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary’s online entry for deplane

No useage notes of any kind.

How about if people were ‘spurted’ off a plane.

Unboard? Unload?

All the passengers unassed the plane…...