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AMERICAblog: Consumer safety focused China eyes 'standing room' airline

  • UncleBucky · 4 months ago
    Right.

    Standing room on a plane. I have been in a minor bump-up in a subway. That was not nice. Mind you, we were going along at about 40 kph. What speeds does a jet plane travel at? 750 kph? Oh it's gonna be very interesting when they first hit air turbulence pockets.

    If that is the way that China regards clients, customers, patrons or passengers, if you ever go there, think of the cattle cars of the 1940s in Nazi Germany... (BTW, China is not communist. China is fascist masquerading as a communist state.)

    Ugh.
  • Grrrowler · 4 months ago
    The linked article says that they have 13 planes. Someone needs to tell them that that's the way business works; if you have 13 planes then that's your capacity. And I think the line about not being able to get planes is BS. There are NUMEROUS aircraft in the world today parked in long-term storage that have plenty of life left on the airframe.
  • psychodrew · 4 months ago
    I have flown on Chinese airlines more times than I care to remember and I never felt unsafe. For a long time, it was a Taiwanese airline, not a Chinese airline, that had the worst safety record in China. The Chinese aren't good at a lot of things--and corruption is a big problem--but they are good at flying.
  • postdamnit · 4 months ago
    As a former pilot I had one of the best laughs that I have had in many a year!!!

    Terrific. "Please stand to the back of the plane and please do not speak with the pilot while the plane is in motion."

    Funny, funny...
  • A2900 · 4 months ago
    Am I missing something here? Don't we have literally thousands of commercial airplanes sitting unused in deserts, unused? And aren't the leasing companies who own them or the finance companies which financed the planes eager to put them to use again?
  • sukabi2 · 4 months ago
    think of the money they could save, and the extra capacity they'd have if they opened up seating (or standing) in the cargo bays and strapped passengers to the wings
  • FuzzyandBlue · 4 months ago
    "It's just like bar stools," he added. "The safety belt is the the most important thing. It will still be fastened around the waist."

    Wha-wha-what????
    Thank the stars these a**hats aren't freakin making kiddie car seats!
  • Queer_Canuck · 4 months ago
    I suppose next all the US airlines will want to try this -- except they'll charge $25 for the safety belt.
  • Marshall Y. · 4 months ago
    Cattle cars with wings. And I thought Delta was bad.
  • Peter Johnson · 4 months ago
    I would fly it if it cost less. hell, we take subways without seats, whats so bad about flying. Besides, it would hurt less to die in an air crash than in a train collision.

    Seriously, we have to tighten our belts in these hard times and I hope US airlines would also offer a '4th class' of cheap standing space.