This seems incompatible with a pretty high proportion of Americans.
This concept for budget double decker airline seating
Submitted 6 months 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 6 months ago
TheDarkKnight@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Y’all getting kinda thicc too, no offense.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
Relevant username
qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Tremendously incompatible, if 1/10 of what is portraid on movies is true.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Extra cushioning for crashes, just have to wear a xxxl diaper.
Naja_kaouthia@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
With your face right at prime fart receiving level. Wtf.
magnetosphere@kbin.social 6 months 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 6 months ago
Middle seat would have enough time to finish before they could stop you.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world 6 months ago
This guy right here officer
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
The Pink Eye Express.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 months ago
Sounds like a real gas, man.
wooki@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Someone shits their pants. Good god
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Same height, same dreams.
Selmafudd@lemmy.world 6 months ago
As another tall person my knees ache just looking at this photo
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Pretty soon they’re just going to roofie people and pack them into planes like sardines.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Multipass!
Shanedino@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Honestly it’s like teleporting then so I’m on board.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 6 months 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 6 months ago
Get a tamper to pack em in a little
lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
A la Fifth Element.
tea@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Why did they say if like it was a bad thing? I want this to be a thing.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
unsurprisingly the ship and train industry figured this shit out like literally a century ago
Rhaedas@kbin.social 6 months ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_(1781_ship)#/media/File:Slaveshipposter.jpg
wahming@monyet.cc 6 months ago
DuncanIdaho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m sure she’ll be smiling when a drunken passenger farts right into her nostrils.
PoetSII@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think whoever thought of this concept should die
superfes@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Window seat dude needs to take a piss, watch the fun …
Also, why the fuck is she smiling?!
BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 months 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 6 months ago
Acting!
spittingimage@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Nah they just charge you for not flying
uis@lemmy.world 6 months ago
But what it they will hi-jack engine?
Xenon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
garibaldi_biscuit@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Cheaper? What kinda crack are you smoking? Shit is destroying the planet, it needs to be a LOT more expensive.
rchive@lemm.ee 6 months ago
This extra passenger density would make it cheaper per person, right? More fuel efficient, too.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Those steps DEFINITELY aren’t a safety hazard.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
imagine this plane crashing.
dangblingus@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just like all plane crashes, everyone would die.
jaywalker@lemm.ee 6 months 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 6 months ago
Imagine this plane with a fire on board before takeoff and now the unfit overweight masses have to evacuate.
jeebus@kbin.social 6 months ago
Imagine a new meaning to the phrase "upper decker".
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 months 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 6 months ago
That doesn’t actually look to bad considering what we have today
Kase@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Why does she look so happy?
Smytty@lemmy.world 6 months ago
She’s smiling, so you know it’s all okay
Zink@pawb.social 6 months ago
These people smile like they’ve never rode in an airplane with more than 3 people
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
“why do people prefer trains??”
qevlarr@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Lalala, don’t mind me, I’ll just leave this here…
DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Can they guarantee it won’t collapse and break my legs?
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Transatlantic human cattle
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 6 months 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 6 months ago
Yall need to stop posting these, they are never going to happen. Neither these, nor the partially standing ones.
Stamets@startrek.website 6 months 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 6 months ago
“We’ll just put the disabled passengers in the cargo hold. Problem solved.”
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 6 months ago
If I pretend to be disabled can I fly there too?
Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months 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 6 months ago
Not to mention safety requirements for rapidly escaping a plane in the event of an emergency
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 6 months 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 6 months ago
They only put them down the center with regular seats along the windows.
First class, second class, cargo class.
Stamets@startrek.website 6 months 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 6 months 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 6 months ago
Imagine trying to evacuate in a rush.
agressivelyPassive@feddit.de 6 months ago
If you can’t afford business class seats, are you even worth saving?
thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com 6 months 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 6 months ago
God, that’s totally true. I can’t imagine how they would try to make that work.