"We'll just put the disabled passengers in the cargo hold. Problem solved."

Not to mention safety requirements for rapidly escaping a plane in the event of an emergency

They only put them down the center with regular seats along the windows.

First class, second class, cargo class.

Imagine trying to evacuate in a rush. Also, deep vein thrombosis.

God, that's totally true. I can't imagine how they would try to make that work.

Y'all getting kinda thicc too, no offense.

Relevant username

Tremendously incompatible, if 1/10 of what is portraid on movies is true.

Extra cushioning for crashes, just have to wear a xxxl diaper.

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.

The Pink Eye Express.

Sounds like a real gas, man.

Someone shits their pants. Good god

Multipass!

Honestly it's like teleporting then so I'm on board.

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.

A la Fifth Element.

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.

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”

Same height, same dreams.

unsurprisingly the ship and train industry figured this shit out like literally a century ago

The airlines can maximize that idea as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/...

God, I would love that. I can't sleep sitting up, even when I'm really tired. Long plane rides are torture.

I think these only go down the center based on the photo.

She's smiling because she's being paid to smile.

At least there'd finally be room.

Eh. Fewer passengers per plane is worse for the environment, and lying down is great for people with back problems. I can see the pluses.

Where are the overhead baggage bins? No carry-on bags? If they go in the hold, how do you make it bigger?

This design is similar but not the same as OG post. Although still shitty, its quite an improvement over the orgional.

Those steps DEFINITELY aren't a safety hazard.

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.

Just like all plane crashes, everyone would die.

Imagine this plane with a fire on board before takeoff and now the unfit overweight masses have to evacuate.

Imagine a new meaning to the phrase "upper decker".

Someone somewhere just pulled out some graph paper and is sketching a concept.

12 hour flight. The fail-safes fail. Something goes wrong with the anesthesia and you're awake for the entire thing

I fly often for work, stay up the whole night before and cannabis. Flying is easy now.

I had very bad claustrophobia the time I got rolled in a carpet with only my head sticking out or the time I got closed in a trunk. Flew around 12 times on airplanes and they are mostly just uncomfortable and annoying. Maybe I grew out of it 🤷

The leg room is better but scooting into the window seat will be slightly harder. Hard telling if you can put your feet down in this set up though.

Right at fart smelling level

don't think of the farts don't think of the farts don't think of the farts don't think of the farts don't think of the farts

Paid model or executive. They're trying to sell the concept.

she has a secret fetish for strangers powering farts directly into her face while being confined so tightly as to feel buried alive.

Better be because her ticket from Seoul to San Francisco was just $35

She eats ass.

Honestly I wish that was the case in the US.

For most people, trains are not a alternative.

Often trains cost more. Many train stations are messes and share space with busses.

Because they are in better part of the world(EU)

The lady isn't choosing to "have her feet up," she is essentially sitting on the floor and forced into the L shape by the rigid structure around her. There's still incredibly little range of motion just like a regular seat, except now with the added danger of a much more difficult emergency evacuation, especially for people with limited mobility.

Also, I'm imagining that there isn't a wall right in front of her face, as this angle suggests. But rather, there is a bit of a cavity tucked up under the top seat. Oh, yeah... found an image. It does still look a little claustrophobic in there.

Claustrophobia. It's an absolutely fucking not from me, dawg

My biggest problem with the space is that if I had to sit with my legs out like that, I'd eventually cramp up and inevitably bang my knees on the chair above.

I suspect the angle might make the space look smaller too, it's possible that the wall actually extends a bit out without being solid inside

She's also fully reclined her seat. So maybe if her seat was upright it would be easier for people to get in and out.

An issue with this is getting up mid flight

This is marketing meaning if this ever actually came to market (and it won't) they would immediately begin adjusting it to reclaim even more room causing cramping with each new redesign. People are very easily conditioned so years after this became a thing and multiple redesigns later people would only just be beginning to realize it has already happened and even then nothing would change because the general public won't do anything while a select few will complain and make no impact.

People see these stupid concepts and forget that air travel is pretty strictly regulated.

There's really not much room to squeeze more seats in and also appease regulators.

Which doesn't mean it won't get worse, they'll capture the regulating agencies and then it'll get worse.

As someone from Indonesia: Have some stinky beans! And also durian!

I would hope that the people designing airplanes can accommodate the weight of a person

It depends on who's sitting in the upper seats.

Totally agree. Having recently done 13 hours in economy, the fact my knees are constantly wedged against something and I can't straighten out is the biggest discomfort. I don't speak Italian so I don't need acres of room to swing my arms around, lift the person in front up and give me leg room instead!

Um... no? A voluntary half-day voyage in comfortable seats is not even nearly comparable to the inhuman horrors experienced on slave ships. There is absolutely nothing dangerous about this.

Im a huge fan of the 5th element strat. Slide me into a pod and render me unconcious with gas. It solves so many problems - entertaing self in flight, listening to the bodily functions of strangers, crying babies. Airlines would save millions on meals not served and stewards not serving them. It even solves security concerns, terrorists cant hijack a plane when they are unconcious and locked in a pod.

And if the worst happens, and the plane has a case of engine-rich-exhaust and is hurtling down into the freezing southern ocean, I really dont wanna know about it. Just let Posiden take me in my sleep.

Frankly, I'm more surprised to see that the same people who have trouble spelling "rogue" and "tongue" also can't spell "lounge"... or use auto spellcheck

The fact that these concepts are even made to begin with is the concerning part. Someone out there is on board.

I heard this song for the first time yesterday, that's so weird.

You don't want to blindly stick your feet into that dark underseat compartment.

If I could fly in a coffin in the baggage section I’d be so much more comfortable.

"If you didn't want the mandatory double amputation you should've upgraded to comfort plus."

Also the fact that planes these days are slower and travel times longer than 30 or 40 years ago. This makes the above seating arrangement even worse for long distance flights.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/...

Extra discount fare if you eat ass.

steerage, stowage, storage I swear you're just trying to mess with us at this point

You don't design for the flight; you design for the evacuation. We learned that the hard way decades ago. This looks like it forgot all those lessons paid for by people's lives.

This looks like a good way to eliminate all my carbon emissions from flying because there’s no way I’ll get on a plane like this.

One word: Claustrophobia

Deep vein thrombosis and lack of efficient evacuation routes say hello

I'm not even particularly claustrophobic, and I am also very aware that this is unlikely to ever pass FAA inspection, and yet I still inevitably start breathing heavier every time I see this photo. It's just so terrifying.