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Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 after passing budget evaluation (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* by to c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
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[–] 29 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (6 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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Missile inbound. Deploying passengers."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Would you rather die in your sleep? Or with your balls crushed?

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year 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.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People too fat

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So we'll have them stand for hours instead?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Now, it would be pretty reactionary for me to say that you are wrong, especially when speaking about Americans or even the UK. But we are all a byproduct of our environment and I still have empathy and I don't want a fat shame But I definitely don't want to glorify it and I want to find the source of the problem Because people don't necessarily choose to be overweight shit, I'm a little chunky. I'm a poor Yankee. Oh, also, very interesting, China is a capitalist country and it has an obese problem. This is all just shit on top of shit. Like, we gotta go down this rabbit hole of causation. But people don't have the attention span. One day at a time, I suppose.

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