[reg45]

Sardine cans.

[Balding_Eagle]

How about changing two things first?

Instead of claiming ‘departure’ as the time the plane is pushed back from the gate-—change—— to when the wheels leave the ground.

Arrival time changed from when the wheels touch the runway upon landing-—change—to the time the door opens to unload.

The strong forces of Capitalism will take care of all the rest. Those economic forces are relentless, brutal, unforgiving of mistake.

[onedoug]

“...The plane faced mechanical issues forcing a delay of several hours, before passengers were finally allowed to de-pod.”

[MinuteGal]

I seem to remember an oldy "aliens" movie from about the fifties about "pod people".

I recall it was said to be one of the two worst movies ever made.

Leni

[Gritty]

I can see arriving an additional 30 minutes early so they can load and preposition the pod.

[bgill]

Countless things could go wrong. I’ll stick to driving.

[sevlex]

Just strip everyone naked and shove them into the cabin standing. Once they’re packed in nice and tight you can turn on the showers when airborne.

[I am Richard Brandon]

"Boeing has previously stated that cutting down an airplane's turnaround time by 10 minutes improve its utilisation level by 8.1pc.

I call "BullSh!t." The math of that claim needs to be shown. If that person builds planes I ain't goin!

[Winniesboy]

I can see this working much more readily for baggage than for passengers. Airline baggage loading is stuck in the same mode as shipping was in the days of stevedores. Loading each bag individually on to a trailer, towing the trailer to the plane, unloading and reloading on the plane, stacking in the hold - all hugely time-consuming and labour-intensive. How many times have we all been sat in the cabin twiddling our thumbs while 'the last few bags are loaded'?

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.

[Cold Heat]

Gives new meaning to the term “baggage”.

[Hulka]

Going from being treated like cattle to being treated like cargo. . .