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It's magical. I once fell asleep before takeoff (which I've never been able to do since), and woke up exactly as the plane landed, some 7 hours later, and it fe
by atombender 6y ago
It's magical. I once fell asleep before takeoff (which I've never been able to do since), and woke up exactly as the plane landed, some 7 hours later, and it felt like I had been teleported.
It's the reason that I fantasize about planes one day offering real beds — or at least seats that can be put (in economy class, mind you) into a flat position.
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoI managed this once on a 14hr long-haul from London to Vancouver (refuel in Goose Bay, because it was a a cheap flight!). Other than the refuel land/takeoff, I slept the entire flight. But only because I had only just started my paid career as a software engineer, my boss had gone on vacation leaving me to run the computer systems at a multinational research facility, and I had worked for 72 hours without any sleep right before leaving :) I don't think we'll ever get bunk planes as long as revenue maximization is at the core of the airlines' operations.
- benjohnson 6y agoBunks would let airlines cram more people into the same volume. Sadly, the requirement for everybody to be able to leave a burning plane quickly gets in the way of that particular dream.
- Scoundreller 6y agoThe trick is to fly trans-oceanically during a pandemic: then you can snipe 3 seats to yourself in economy. It can also happen if you fly into an airport that was closed for the week before because it was bombed.
- prpl 6y agoI flew Chile to US in April (last flight out for a month). There was about 50 passengers on a 787
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