This seems incompatible with a pretty high proportion of Americans.
This concept for budget double decker airline seating
Submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/c8d5557d-d278-4bea-bf39-1c89862f4353.png
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cholesterol@lemmy.world 2 years ago
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Y’all getting kinda thicc too, no offense.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It’s funny because you don’t know which country he’s from but it still applies anyway because everyone is getting fatter
dingus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Relevant username
qyron@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Tremendously incompatible, if 1/10 of what is portraid on movies is true.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Extra cushioning for crashes, just have to wear a xxxl diaper.
Naja_kaouthia@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
With your face right at prime fart receiving level. Wtf.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 2 years ago
Even for the people who would get off on that, their joy would turn to frustration when the flight attendant asked them to stop masturbating.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Middle seat would have enough time to finish before they could stop you.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This guy right here officer
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The Pink Eye Express.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Sounds like a real gas, man.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Someone shits their pants. Good god
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
I don’t absolutely hate it, but I’m 6’3", so fully stretching my legs out on a plane is always just a pipe dream.
I’m sure they’d make them fit only average size people, unfortunately.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Do you see how that lady’s feet are? They’re probably up against a wall, and I don’t think she’s 6’3”
AeroLemming@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Also, no way people on the higher part have the same amount of leg room. Their feet would go through other passengers’ heads.
MorrisonMotel6@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Same height, same dreams.
Selmafudd@lemmy.world 2 years ago
As another tall person my knees ache just looking at this photo
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Pretty soon they’re just going to roofie people and pack them into planes like sardines.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Multipass!
Shanedino@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Honestly it’s like teleporting then so I’m on board.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 2 years ago
They could just tip the nose of the plane 90 degrees in the air and then have a slide or funnel that dumps you into the fuselage. You’ll just want to be sure to buy first-class tickets so that you’ll be at the top of the pile.
rbos@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Get a tamper to pack em in a little
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
A la Fifth Element.
tea@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Why did they say if like it was a bad thing? I want this to be a thing.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
If you stack people alternating head-first, feet-first, head-first, they will tesselate much better. Airlines eventually won’t be able to resist the profit margin.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think they should just have rows of bunk beds. It’s much easier to stack something flat than people with their awkward bends at the hips and knees.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
unsurprisingly the ship and train industry figured this shit out like literally a century ago
Rhaedas@kbin.social 2 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_(1781_ship)#/media/File:Slaveshipposter.jpg
DuncanIdaho@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’m sure she’ll be smiling when a drunken passenger farts right into her nostrils.
PoetSII@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I think whoever thought of this concept should die
superfes@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Window seat dude needs to take a piss, watch the fun …
Also, why the fuck is she smiling?!
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
I think these only go down the center based on the photo.
She’s smiling because she’s being paid to smile.
dustyData@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Acting!
spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 years ago
One day they’ll invent super-economy class where you just get strapped to the wings and released over your destination. Parachutes will be extra.
trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Not going to get much repeat business, but on the other hand, you wouldn’t have to worry very much about hi-jacking.
tdawg@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nah they just charge you for not flying
uis@lemmy.world 2 years ago
But what it they will hi-jack engine?
Xenon@lemmy.world 2 years ago
garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Where are the overhead baggage bins? No carry-on bags? If they go in the hold, how do you make it bigger?
Revonult@lemmy.world 2 years ago
This design is similar but not the same as OG post. Although still shitty, its quite an improvement over the orgional.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 years ago
The newer version from the link looks less bad than this picture, but still dystopian as fuck. We need to make airline travel cheaper somehow rather than having the airline industry come up with their own ideas to try and pack people in like cattle.
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 2 years ago
Cheaper? What kinda crack are you smoking? Shit is destroying the planet, it needs to be a LOT more expensive.
rchive@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This extra passenger density would make it cheaper per person, right? More fuel efficient, too.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
Those steps DEFINITELY aren’t a safety hazard.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
imagine this plane crashing.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just like all plane crashes, everyone would die.
jaywalker@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Not sure if you’re just joking, but plenty of people survive plane crashes. Most crashes aren’t just a plane falling out of the sky at full speed. Survival rates are around 95%.
nslatz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Imagine this plane with a fire on board before takeoff and now the unfit overweight masses have to evacuate.
jeebus@kbin.social 2 years ago
Imagine a new meaning to the phrase "upper decker".
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
No, wait. This is actually not a bad idea.
Look closely. First of all there’s a rigid barrier between the lower and upper seat. That means that fart gasses won’t get through, unlike current seats where farts just spread everywhere around a person, so only the upper seats will be affected.
Second, the lady has her feet up, meaning she has enough leg room to do so. This is a big advantage because you can kick your feet up on your underseat baggage while you sleep or stretch your legs. It’s much better than the current layout where you can barely move at all.
No offense, but I think anyone with a negative opinion of this layout is wrong.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
That doesn’t actually look to bad considering what we have today
Kase@lemmy.world 2 years ago
As someone who doesn’t have claustrophobia, I feel claustrophobic just looking at this. Then again, I’ve never been on a plane before, and for all I know this might be better :/
janus2@lemmy.sdf.org 2 years ago
at that point just give me general anaesthesia and put me in an airline shipping coffin so at least i don’t have to be conscious for the horror show
kamen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Why does she look so happy?
Smytty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
She’s smiling, so you know it’s all okay
Zink@pawb.social 2 years ago
These people smile like they’ve never rode in an airplane with more than 3 people
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
“why do people prefer trains??”
qevlarr@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Lalala, don’t mind me, I’ll just leave this here…
DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Seems happy to be probably smelling some bodies vacation diet farts for an entire flight. Imagine the farts you’ll be subjected to sitting under somebody who spent a week in Indonesia or Thailand absorbing the spicy local cuisine.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We’re getting dangerously close to how they packed the slaves in the cargo holds of ships for transport across the ocean.
ydieb@lemm.ee 2 years ago
As a taller person, if this gives me sufficient legroom and a seat that actually distributes the weight over my whole thighs such that I can sit somewhat comfortable, this seems like a major upgrade to me.
Treczoks@kbin.social 2 years ago
There are laws regulating how to transport pigs and cows to the slaughterhouse. They have more space than the passengers on this plane.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Can they guarantee it won’t collapse and break my legs?
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Transatlantic human cattle
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
The sadness really hits when you see this was last year, and not 1991 where the concept should have stayed.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
Yall need to stop posting these, they are never going to happen. Neither these, nor the partially standing ones.
Stamets@startrek.website 2 years ago
Everytime I see these I always take solace in one simple fact. This would never be able to pass any disability or accessibility act.
Dasnap@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“We’ll just put the disabled passengers in the cargo hold. Problem solved.”
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 2 years ago
If I pretend to be disabled can I fly there too?
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
… I could fly with my dog then? (I’ve not traveled with her, because being alone in the cargo sounds like a torment I would not wish on anyone). But if I can be there, too, that’s a whole other scenario
SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Not to mention safety requirements for rapidly escaping a plane in the event of an emergency
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Though tbf, with planes how often do emergencies fall between the “it’s dangerous to stay here” and “you can get off the plane safely if you’re quick” thresholds? I’d think that due to their nature, most situations will either be “no rush” or “not much we can do about it now”. Things like emergency exits seem more like safety theatre than anything else IMO.
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
They only put them down the center with regular seats along the windows.
First class, second class, cargo class.
Stamets@startrek.website 2 years ago
I’m gonna be real, I totally forgot that planes have middle lanes. Every plane that I’ve ever been on has been a relatively small in comparison. Some of them fucking frighteningly so. When my knees are touching the back of the pilot I’m usually having concerns other than the legroom.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 2 years ago
These will not see the light of day until the industry coughs up enough money to buy off enough legislation oversight to make the FAA egress rules “agreeable”.
squiblet@kbin.social 2 years ago
Imagine trying to evacuate in a rush.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 2 years ago
If you can’t afford business class seats, are you even worth saving?
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Dvt would likely be less of an issue with your legs out vs bent at the knee. Less gravity for your heart to fight against.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 years ago
God, that’s totally true. I can’t imagine how they would try to make that work.