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[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

That's majestic

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 week ago (18 children)

These standing seats have been coming next year for the past decade, but they always failed safety tests. Planes need to be evacuated within a certain time frame, which does not work when the plane is too densely packed.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't they go Middle Earth on them and just create more doors?

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This looks like a pain in the balls in case of turbulence

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (1 children)

passengers hanging outside not before 2030

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How people can look at (mostly) state owned rail vs private airlines and still think the free market benefits the average person is one of life's big mysteries to me.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watch these cost the same as standard seats, and the cost of standard seats go up

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

“You’re still a premium subscriber and have full access to our premium plan, but some of our options have changed.”

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 week ago (6 children)

So I guess no putting your head between your knees in the event of a crash then, huh?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago (7 children)

The only reason airlines would have you do that in the first place is so you can kiss your ass goodbye.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Honestly, I'm pretty tall and if it gives more room for my legs, I'd like to have the option

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Finally more leg room... But now your head bumps against the ceiling and you need to have your head tilted for the entire flight

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why do you assume there will be leg room?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

This. The who point is to cram more seats than they are currently able

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The lengths the US will go to to avoid building high-speed rail.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

Because of course it's Ryanair.

Oh, you want a seat? That's an extra £50. Each. Both ways. Go fuck yourselves.

The EU needs to regulate the fuck out of that shitbag company.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (6 children)

It's a capitalism thing.

Extract as much value as possible. Deliver as little value to your customers as possible. Treat them as second layer of product.

Human needs are not the goal.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (5 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] 31 points 1 week ago (16 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] 1 points 1 week ago

Another emergency door can't be that expensive

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Honestly I didn't even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago

And if the plane fails, jump out of the plane with the chair and sit down/stand up as you're about to hit the ground.

You won't receive any fall damage during the animation.

(Make sure to check patch notes, this is a 2020 update exploit)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (4 children)

There's an idea. Flights that people can make standing, should be banned, except when there is a body of water between the destination.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

For what it's worth: this was apparently a concept created by an airline seat company called Aviointeriors who showed the idea off at trade shows in 2010 (as the "SkyRider") and 2018 (as the "SkyRider 2.0" pictured here.) Pretty much all the news articles about it are about Aviointeriors claiming vague unsourced "plans" for them to be adopted by some future date, steeped in Aviointeriors' corporate PR speak, but the articles mostly end up being about the intense public backlash to the idea. No airlines have announced any plans to buy and use these seats, not even those lunatics at RyanAir, and in the years since all SkyRider mentions have been quietly removed from Aviointeriors' own site.

Sources:

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