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Photos of airplane standing seats

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What do you guys think? It looks terrible to me.

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http://consumerist.com/2010/09/meet-the-airline-seat-that-will-destroy-your-crotch.html
 
Cowboys ride eight hours on their horses during the day and still feel comfortable in the saddle.
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There's a reason why horses went out of fashion over 100 years ago. And your average person cannot just get on a horse and ride 8 hours without being sore.
 
That looks like it could effectively halve the ticket prices. I'd settle for that. It looks horribly cramped and uncomfortable, but I bet it's a helluva lot more comfy than it looks.
 
astroidea said:
That looks like it could effectively halve the ticket prices. I'd settle for that.
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So instead of $200 cross country flights I could be crammed in for 5 hours with hundreds of other people for $100? No thanks. I'm not THAT cheap. Frankly, I'd be perfectly willing to pay $100-200 more to get a little extra room on my flights.

What about the extra weight and baggage? Hell, I bet if we stacked people on top of one another we could cram 400 people into an airplane that currently seats 120! We could call them bulk flights.
 
JulesMaximus said:
So instead of $200 cross country flights I could be crammed in for 5 hours with hundreds of other people for $100? No thanks. I'm not THAT cheap. Frankly, I'd be perfectly willing to pay $100-200 more to get a little extra room on my flights.

What about the extra weight and baggage? Hell, I bet if we stacked people on top of one another we could cram 400 people into an airplane that currently seats 120! We could call them bulk flights.
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Since when were cross country flights the 1-3hr ones?
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astroidea said:
Nice smartass reply. The flights combined won't be 1-3hrs.. 😛
Anyways, I could easily see a market for this for 1-3hr flights.
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Seriously, what's to stop an airline from booking you on two of these flights cross country? You aren't in the air for more than 3 hours at a time (assuming a connection through O'Hare, Dallas, or Minneapolis) so, technically, they could get away with it.
 
thepd7 said:
for 45 minutes? who cares if it makes the tickets cheaper.
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I can pretty much guarantee that you'd still pay full-fare for these "seats". Oh, they may debut at half price but remember that airlines are some of the worst-run businesses in the history of the universe. It would not be long before carriers had to raise fares to counteract their incompetence.

Also, 2x as many people means 2x as much luggage. Overhead and under-body storage will be at an absolute premium. It sure as hell isn't a half-price flight if you have to pay $50 for "reserve" a place in the overhead bin or $100 for checked luggage.
 
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