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The bunk bed concept often surfaces but see https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/21713/4188 https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/21713/4188
by chx 7y ago
The bunk bed concept often surfaces but see https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/21713/4188 https://travel.stackexchange.com/q/21713/4188
- mattrp 7y agoYeah I know... I have impractical ideas about air travel. My other idea was to take the second level of a 747 and convert it to a gym. Instead of seats you’d have treadmills and at the far end would be showers. Anyone could “book” time in the gym for a fee. Imagine being able to go for a run on a 18 hour transpacific flight? Of course all this gets mooted by the starship... once we can get la to Singapore in 20 minutes who cares what the seat looks like?
- CaptainZapp 7y agoI don't get why you're downvoted. I think it's a creative idea. But I don't think it will fly (pun intended). Real estate (as in space) on a plane is probably the most expensive in the world. While airlines reserve space for (for example) a bar in business class (and to the best of my knowledge only in the A380) a gym would use too much space. There's also the issue with turbulence to consider, which would make a gym (at least without significant adaptions to the machines) rather impractical.
- scrollaway 7y agoReal estate and weight are the two most expensive things on planes, and two things gyms use extensively.
- CaptainZapp 7y agoTrue; I didn't even consider the weight.
- ghaff 7y agoWell, originally, the upper deck of 747s was a lounge/bar. Which personally appeals to me a lot more than a gym does to be honest. :-)
- quotemstr 7y agoGiven the huge improvements in air travel safety over the past few decades, it probably makes sense to relax evacuation and seatbelt requirements a little bit in order to enable experimentation with bunks and other non-standard layouts.
- CaptainZapp 7y agoI still think there's the issue with business - and first class travelers, which pay top $ to lie flat on long haul flights and are main revenue source of most airlines. Offering a cheap (or at least significantly cheaper) option to lie flat would eat into their own revenue.
- ghaff 7y agoWell, and once you have lie-flat seating, I'm not sure how different that is from regular business class. Sure you could still maybe squeeze a few more seats in and offer cheaper food/booze. But the difference in the cost to the airline is probably going to be pretty slim.
- mb_72 7y agoI would pay a bit extra to have 30 minute's worth of 'horizontal time' in a small bunk for flights over 10 hours in duration. However I assume that because this isn't a thing already, someone else thought of it, did the calculations and worked out it wouldn't be profitable for the airline.
- Havoc 7y agoWhat are you going to do with 30 mins? Power nap? Few people can manage that