Posted on 11/27/2015 4:56:01 AM PST by Winniesboy
Exactly.
Don’t even get me started on regional airline puddle-jumpers.
“propranoLOL”
Is that a form of laughing gas? :-)
and so it begins... ;)
Not accurate - they are newer than Boing AC. Many/most of the 767s are >30 years old and rollaboards were not as popular so the cabins look bleak and unaccommodating.
But the Boeings are better engineered and manufactured, and due to their age have better safety records.
I like the Airbusses as they are newer and have more + better creature comforts. So I suppose what matters most, design-wise, is if you get there.
Pre-seat people in the exact order the are going to board, every third row and stagger entry. That would make it quick and simple.
We’ll load rows 48, 45, 42, etc. first, boarding in that order.
5 minutes later, 47, 44, 41, etc.
5 minute later, 46, 43, 40, etc.
All done in 10 minutes, no standing in the aisle waiting for someone to load the overhead bin, so you can get past.
I don’t know how much more obvious it can get: first in is the person who enters furthest from his seat. You seat the passengers in the waiting room accordingly; first person you want to enter, you preposition closest to the entry. When boarding begins, you keep seated at least half of the passengers, waiting to ask them to queue up to board until their standing wait will be less than a minute.For long flights, you could consider deliberately causing able-bodied passengers to walk for five minutes before boarding, just to improve their circulation and tolerate extended sitting.
EUropeans are more likely to accept being put in flying cattle cars.
For passengers surely the claimed time saving could only be realised if there were two pods - one with incoming passengers, the other with waiting outgoing passengers ready to be docked immediately the first in undocked. And it doen't take much thought to see the impracticalities of that arrangement.
If they just integrate the parachute scene from Fast and Furious 7, they could help passengers avoid those long lines at the car rental offices.
Actually, IMHO, it's very basic in a free market system that both the industry and the consumers assume the other is trying to get the best deal for themselves. So being a cynical consumer is important in holding industry accountable. That's why competition is so important, and why the free market system doesn't work well when there are monopolies.
I want the airlines to do well, and agree with you entirely that we all want to fly on airlines that are solvent, and doing well. That said, if the airlines can get away having people essentially stand for their entire flight they will (something close to this has been put forth by one of the economy European airlines). As a consumer, it's my right to fight back against this, criticizing and avoiding airlines that give the impression of not caring about passenger comfort. That's my part of the free market.
my part of the free market is flying first class/business class. It’s very comfortable. First on, first off.
Now, where you are cynical, is you are looking at the whole thing as an adversarial relationship, not a win win.....and no successful business in the planet’s history has been anything BUT a win/win - for the business and it’s customers.
Gives new meaning to the term “baggage”.
That is because they see themselves as cattle.
Going from being treated like cattle to being treated like cargo. . .
Business traveler knows the suffering will be over quickly if he gets on fast, dumps his carry-on fast, sits down fast.
Carry-on’s are essential to business travelers. I check no bags (that is why gawd made hotel laundries).
Let business travelers bring carry-on, one roller and one briefcase. That is all they need and they know how to pack, and get on and off a jet efficiently.
It is the brain-dead “casual” traveler that should be banned from having carry-ons. They have no idea how to pack and no clue about how to be low profile, quiet and efficient. . .and personal space? Just because they are sharing a row with someone they feel that they are now long lost friends.
Causal travelers work hard to NOT be efficient when getting on and off the jet.
Casual travelers wear their pj’s, carry a pillow, trundle on with over-stuffed roll-on, and when abeam of their seat row, THEN the brain-dead traveler looks up and sees the over-head bin is full, causing the brain-dead to keep moving aft past their assigned seat to find a open bin, then they fight “upstream” to get back to their seat. . .repeat the “up-stream” fight in reverse upon landing. THOSE are the people causing slow boarding and very slow getting off the jet.
Casual travelers should not be allowed carry-on.
The casual traveler should be ejected mid-flight if they turn into chatty-Cathy and start the endless yakking to their seat-mate (”Oh-boy-this-is-exciting-I-get-to-visit-Aunt-Edna-and-the-security-at-the-airport-makes-me-feel-so-secure-and-I-have-a-bladder-problem-and-will-need-to-get-up-every-10 minutes-and-’hey-Ralph-it’s-me-over-here-I-didn’t-know-you-were-on-this-flight-we-need-to-get-caught-up’. . .etc. . .mindless drivel.”).
That is why I have not flown coach since 1997.
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