A Colombian airline is looking into selling standing room only tickets on airplanes.
The CEO, commenting on the safety concerns, pretty much said that seat belts on planes are purely symbolic. If the plane crashes you’re dead whether you’re sitting or standing. (That’s some message for a CEO.)
He points out that there are no seat belts on high-speed rail. (That’s actually a good point.)
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He’s never been in turbulence, it seems.
They better Teflon the ceiling of the plane, it’ll be easier to scrape people off when they land.
High speed rail does not go up and down.
I suppose it would also cut down on the cost of food and beverage service. I don’t want to fly an airline which makes margin by cutting costs to the bone.
This is, perhaps, a subtle form of population control. A plane crash about every other month, no public information.
United Airlines CEO seen vigorously taking notes…
Hell, give everybody a sedative and a Gin Fizz, and you can stack them in there like fire wood.
LOL Poor Lazlo, it’s Colombia. Pretty sure they will come up with many forms of sedative 😉
Airports already look like third-world bus stations anyway, so i just don’t care anymore. Look at a photo of people traveling by air just 40 years ago. Suit and ties for the men, dresses for the women. No country for old men.
Heck just stow the passengers in kennels in the storage area of the plane and be done with it! But, don’t forget to give them their distemper shots!
I would take the standing “seating”. More legroom…
Insert joke about “man-spreading” here.
Try ridin’ the skid on a Huey at nite … treetop !
This idea has been around for awhile. I think it was first floated about 10 years ago by an Irish low cost airline (RyanAir?). They designed the standing supports and all but I don’t think it went anywhere.
As far as the seatbelts go, they won’t do you any good if you auger in but there have been plentry of flights that have broken up on landing where seats (with passengers attached by the belts) thrown clear. They also prevent serious injury on rough landings.
This dude went to the same business school as the NHS official who deemed it a good idea to cut costs by not changing sheets on patients’ beds every day.
As one who has went from 40 to 0 in <2 seconds? I've seen
the carnage when a person decelerates into hard objects in an
open space. It's ugly.
The Unbreakable train crash scene comes to mind.