Ryanair be Like

These standing seats have been coming next year for the past decade, but they always failed safety tests. Planes need to be evacuated within a certain time frame, which does not work when the plane is too densely packed.

Watch these cost the same as standard seats, and the cost of standard seats go up

For what it's worth: this was apparently a concept created by an airline seat company called Aviointeriors who showed the idea off at trade shows in 2010 (as the "SkyRider") and 2018 (as the "SkyRider 2.0" pictured here.) Pretty much all the news articles about it are about Aviointeriors claiming vague unsourced "plans" for them to be adopted by some future date, steeped in Aviointeriors' corporate PR speak, but the articles mostly end up being about the intense public backlash to the idea. No airlines have announced any plans to buy and use these seats, not even those lunatics at RyanAir, and in the years since all SkyRider mentions have been quietly removed from Aviointeriors' own site.

Sources:

• news.com.au
• CNN
• Euro Weekly News
• Daily Mail (archive link, ain't giving them a click)

Next stage: inject you with strong sedatives and pack the plane with the bodies

I mean, I'm broke as shit. So if it halved the cost of the tickets I'd do it, but I'm 99% sure I'd be paying close to the same.

How people can look at (mostly) state owned rail vs private airlines and still think the free market benefits the average person is one of life's big mysteries to me.

This looks like a pain in the balls in case of turbulence

passengers hanging outside not before 2030

The lengths the US will go to to avoid building high-speed rail.

What about people like myself who have POTS and can't be in a standing position for too long? My heart can legit stop causing me to pass out if I'm standing for too long.

First it'll be the seats. Next they will remove the floor. Now it's one of those dangling roller coaster rides without rails! 😃

I can’t wait to see people passing out or getting injured because of these seats.

E: plenty of people arguing like people of good health will be the only passengers.

Standing still in place for a few hours is waaay more uncomfortable than pacing and walking around. Shifting the weight on our feet really helps

I can't imagine how awful these would be, especially with how cramped they'd be packed in (otherwise they're no smaller than chairs). God, you couldn't even bend down to scratch your knee.

I remember seeing pictures like this a looking time ago so I'm pretty sure they're fake bait. At best it's an idea somebody prototyped but won't use.

Honestly, I'm pretty tall and if it gives more room for my legs, I'd like to have the option

I don’t get it. Why not just have bunk beds and everyone gets to lay down like those sleeper busses in Asia. They get way more people on those busses than with just seats

So I guess no putting your head between your knees in the event of a crash then, huh?

Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.

Why don't they do lay-down-only seats? Seems like you'd save the same amount of space or more with vastly more comfort.

Honestly I didn't even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.

Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage

"Second hand coffins, cheap!" -Stan, slaps lid of coffin