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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Why don't they do lay-down-only seats? Seems like you'd save the same amount of space or more with vastly more comfort.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The serious non-joke answer is the same as the one for these standing seats: emergency exit speed. When an airplane crash lands you have like less than 2 minutes to get everyone out before the huge inferno happens and roasts people. So for standing seats that pack even more people into an airplane, they have to prove that they can still get everyone out before the deadline. For laying-down seats they would have to prove the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not only that, but also the mess it would make. Airlines make good money off of selling food and drinks, how are you going to consume those laying down? Very messily, that's how. More mess = more time spent cleaning the plane = less time in the air = less ticket sales. Not to mention the loss in drink and food sales from people who don't want to do that laying down. It's a lose lose for the airline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I would pay a premium ticket price to get a lay down seat at the back of the plane and have no food service in that zone. That gets rid of the food sales loss, for which I have never paid for anyway, as I'd be paying a higher ticket price. I guess at that point there is still a concern regarding a mess, since I can bring my own snacks, but it's not like I would be getting some memory foam mattress with Egyptian cotton sheets with the way airlines would implement this anyway. I'd get a long ~~pleather~~ vinyl cushion with maybe a standard pillow.

It would be worse than what I got in the Navy, slightly, but still better than any shit airplane seat I've sat in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago

There is already a premium ticket price for lay down seats on large commercial passenger jets. Many of those first class seats go all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I've been on enough planes to believe 2 minutes of evacuation time will see 5% evacuated and 95% trampled before the fiery inferno.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Remarkably, it has happened. People suddenly decide to pay attention to authority when they’re in a terrifying situation they’ve never experienced.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

What I've chosen to glean from this is that I should inflict varied and new terrors upon coworkers to help keep us on track.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

excellent, the boss will be proud of the new performance numbers, therapy will no longer be covered by insurance to improve the sense of dread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pop me out the side with compressed air like a decoy flare

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

"Missile inbound. Deploying passengers."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

New ultra economy just dropped. Cheap prices, but when Russian SAMs lock on, you are now chaff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Just lean it forward and have everyone slide down and out of the emergency slide.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So we'll have them stand for hours instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

This is more leaning than standing. Even a fat fuck can lean for a while

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The next step is to add a treadmill under everyone.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Instead of oxygen masks, the ceiling drops down a cupcake on a string.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, since this is a shit post, why don't they wrap the passengers like a piece of luggage and store them on a shelf? Save so much room.. Just give them diapers! /S

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

An additional $25 Diaper Convenience Fee has been automatically added to your total.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats?

Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.

But it's all shit regardless. Boeing can barely even make planes that don't fall apart on the runway. The American airline industry's fleet is increasingly defunct. The FAA is gutted. Airports are falling into disrepare due to mismanagement. You'll be lucky to get any kind of air travel in another decade.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

!remindme 10 years

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.

Wouldn't the same group have trouble standing for an entire flight?

If only there was some sort of halfway point between lying down and standing up, something which would be easier to than lying down, but wouldn't be as physically demanding as standing up.

Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like something we'll have to pay extra for. Better not have a disability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hmm..

Well that's one thing I can't really complain about in Finland, access to physically disabled people. Its honestly pretty great, it's been in the infra-design and all design mentality for decades.

Anywhere there is public access, you'll probably also find disabled access.

Like just today, I felt a little bit proud, as I spotted an outhouse built to specifications allowing wheelchair access.

We aren't the utopia people seem to think we are, but if you're in a wheelchair, you'll still get access to nice nature paths on which to be depressed on. So that's nice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

The FAA's goal of zero air disasters will feel like a luxury in the future.