The Horrifying Evolution of Air Travel

They should normalize airships.

Dont like it? Dont fly it.
Its that easy, why are you anti capitalism?

Lcc Airlines absolutely want it.

But regulators will never allow this.

Id rather lay down. Like the fifth element thing.

Add Lufthansa

It's enshittification translated to other sectors. Move along, nothing to see here.

A Norwgian comedy show back in the day made fun of this, where the first class was splendor, and each segment get more and more poor, and they had to low altitude jump out of the plane. Because the location had no airfield.

What’s hilarious is that they could ALSO cram more people in if they have horizontal beds instead of seats….but that would INCREASE comfort and they can’t have that….

Millions of plebs want to fly, with millions more wanting to. Unable to expand airports which are at capacity due to location, environmental factors and NIMBY's. Building new airports is expensive and requires new infrastructure which again brings in environmental issues and NIMBY's. How do they fly the millions of extra plebs that want to fly..?

The most annoying thing about air travel is waiting until the boarding starts

I used to work on avionics in San Antonio TX and they would hire so many immigrant workers over the veterans from the military because they'll take a lower pay. Its killing avionics the way they've been cutting corners for decades. Max profit for least investment.

Aaaaand I got an ad for a game called Airline Manager.... Does that game have this dumb option of standing seats as well? XD

I just saw and Adam something video on this topic. Intresting.

If airlines could, they would blend their passengers into a fine slurry to save space

its not the flying itself its all the bullshit one has to go thru to simply GET to the plane

The "why" did Ryanair comment is surely quite simple. The image used their seat colour scheme and people jumped to the assumption it was about Ryanair. They are a truly abominable company though!

Ah yes, progress, the further enshittification of common services.

Nobody's going to buy it. First class buys their tickets because they have to, coach buys their tickets because they want to. In short, nobody's going to stand for it.

I guess that sh*tty "basic economy" didn't make number go up like they hoped.

Maybe they could make the seats even more cost-effective by harvesting your blood during the flight. Why not offer stackable sleeping pods at this rate?

What class would you like sir ?
We only have black , progressive class left !
. . .
I'll walk thanks !

Of course, once the standing saddle ticket becomes the norm, they will go to phase 2. Pedals will be installed under each seat, and passengers will be able to work for a minor discount on their ticket cost by helping to power the plane.

Just imagine the aggression level when they don't have a place to comfortably sit. They already act like fools when they do.

Those standing seats are at least 15 years old

No way I'm standing 13 hours from Toronto to Tokyo.

I fly frequently and honestly if its comfy, safe, stops idiots from pushing into the back of my seat with the force of a thousand suns when collapsing the tray, and stops the idiot in front from full reclining while im eating, then i am 100% in favor of these standing seats

why not let us choose to be tossed onto a pile of people like logs, seems safe

Ryan Air is definitely goingbto do it. Denial means guilt.

"Standing only" really, is only a good idea for Spacecraft. In 0G they are effectively beds. on even a 1 hour flight, train or bus ride where you have gravity, you will need to sit down properly.
Regulators need to come in and sort this

Capitalists don't care if they kill you, so long as it's more profitable...

As a pilot, I can tell you this is insane.
People will die from this, guaranteed.
Of course, they will probably tell you that AI is going to fly the plane so it's going to be 100% safe.

Wake up people!
The problem is the system built around profit

Imagine an international flight for $60 and all you gotta do is stand for 10 hours i cant wait fir this

When evolution is actually regression.

Well we can only blame ourself, the cheapest tickets always sells first so if ur an airlane wanting to sell tickets...

"And how are conditions in steerage, Mr. Dawson?"

I mean, for me, for short flights i wouldn't mind a standing only seat if made actually safe and given something to rest on even if for a bit. Im tall, and trying to cram myself in those economy seats suck

"air travel is a consistently worsening product .. unless your rich" litterally replace air travel with essentially anything else and you've got modern life in a nutshell

Looks like some one just had a bad flight

No one wants to pay for premium so airlines just make things cheaper

I flew Spirit once and that was enough, I quit flying Frontier because they are trash too. I would be ok if flying was expensive again. $600-700 a flight to keep the trash off the plane. I did fly on JSX which is a 30 seat semi private jet service here out west, well worth the cost and use them if they fly where I'm going. All first class seats, only 30 people, totally different experience. Cost $575 for round trip from Phoenix to Denver. Well worth it to stay away from the trash. I use Delta normally and pay for comfort plus.

I will fly myself LONG before I will ever be on one of these death machines. I am working on my wings right now, and there is no way this will be safe. This sounds like the old urban legend that it was easier to pay out death settlements over recalls. This would be the same that how much they save and the more tickets that are sold will out weigh the cost of payouts for deaths and injury. That or just tie you up in court for YEARS over paying.

This is a very poorly researched video. Firstly the reason Ryanair denied it is because they were asked outright, if you live in the UK or Europe you know Ryanair are the number one airline for disgusting behaviour so if anyone was going to try this it would be them, that's why they were asked I presume. Secondly if this was happening anytime soon we would know, at the very best planes would have to be completely changed, you don't just take seats out and put standing ones in, there is balancing issues, weight issues and a whole whole lot more. If that's not possible new planes would have to be made, on top of that the amount of safety certification needed would be insane and if any of that was going on something would have gotten out by now. Then you have to look at each governing body that regulates the air industry in their respective countries, they would all have to agree to this. It does not matter if one thinks its OK, if the another does not then that airline cannot go near that country and these budget carries fly all over the place. I know these companies would do it tomorrow if they could, however the fact is this stuff has been developed and talked about for decades and has yet to happen, this is proof at the very least its not coming anytime soon if ever. One thing I will say if it does happen years down the line I will not be getting on any plane that has standing, I don't want some dude being tossed around in the cabin like a rag doll in an emergency and killing me or my wife and I honestly think many would feel the same, enough to put airlines off.

it is so stupid that these companies will do anything to get more profit. They KNOW this will cause more regulation yet they still fucking try. It is all so stupid.

I never hated air travel. Actually I found it cheap and convenient. And I usually have a good experience. Which means no smelly or overweight people next to me. The people flying are respectful too. And usually the flight attendants are very professional too.

Fake news.