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>Seats whose primary purpose is to prevent anyone sleeping there I don't understand this. Post 9/11, anyone who enters the terminal is either a paying customer
by superuser2 10y ago
>Seats whose primary purpose is to prevent anyone sleeping there
I don't understand this. Post 9/11, anyone who enters the terminal is either a paying customer with an upcoming flight or staff. It's not like a train station where you need to worry about the homeless hanging around.
- noobermin 10y agoI think the correct response then is especially in security for long layovers: cheap bunks for commuters to sleep in. Why not profit off the supposed "bums"? But yes, they'd have to be pretty cheap, but make them cheap enough and even the most comfortable terminal chairs will be less preferable to a couple of bucks for an hours sleep on a mediocre bunk.
- sjwright 10y agoYou wouldn't be saying that if you were forced to stand near the gate lounge because large numbers of sleeping people were monopolising all the available seats.
- noobermin 10y agoI fly a lot and that has never happened to me ever...unless your idea of large numbers of people is 2 in a radius of 200 m.
- superuser2 10y agoThose people paid for tickets same as you, their travels have worn them out enough that they want to sleep in a public place, they're stuck in airport limbo long enough to actually go to sleep, and you think they are "monopolizing" a resource of which you are more deserving... why, exactly? What do you imagine they should have done instead? Why can't you just walk a few gates down to one with an open seat?
- sjwright 10y agoIn your exceptionally narrow scenario, sure. Clearly you don't fly much.