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Modern air travel outside of business class and select airlines like Lufthansa is a far cry from the luxury and glamour of the Pan Am days. Maybe people will pa
by Apocryphon 4y ago
Modern air travel outside of business class and select airlines like Lufthansa is a far cry from the luxury and glamour of the Pan Am days. Maybe people will pay to take a cruise among the clouds.
- valzam 4y agoThe question is price. Air travel 'sucks' but has also become a lot more accessible, even long haul. If an airship takes 4 days and costs the same as business class on a regular plane I think many people will just business class.
- ghaff 4y agoAnd there is a transatlantic ocean liner option--albeit on a fairly limited basis.
- EricE 4y agoYour assuming that for airship travel the journey wouldn't be the point of the trip, not an inconvenience in getting from point A to point B. With that kind of thinking there would be no market for ocean cruise ships - but there is :)
- jccooper 4y agoThere's a market for cruise ships... as a destination. There's basically no market for ocean liners. There's, what, one left? Perhaps people could be convinced to take an "air cruise", though it'll never have the amenities of a ship, but as transportation there's very little room for slower and more expensive.
- MrFantastic 4y agoAn air cruise over the Rockies or up the Appalachian trail when the leaves turn would be swank. Slow float over Mt Everest.
- ghaff 4y ago>Modern air travel outside of business class and select airlines like Lufthansa is a far cry from the luxury and glamour of the Pan Am days. Not really. It was comfortable if you had first class seating--at a price above today's business class. But the first class lounge was fairly lightly used for the most part and became business class seating when that level of service came in. While airports are worse in some ways because they're often so crowded, modern international lie-flat business class seating is more comfortable in general--and there are more entertainment options--than first class on Pan Am was.
- 0des 4y agoLie flat does not exist for those of a normal height if you're talking about the luxury pods. Those business class sleepers are tiny and you will have to crook your knees.
- ghaff 4y agoI'm six foot and am pretty comfortable in them. In any case, they're more comfortable (even if you don't put them all the way down) than old first class seats--which were basically like the seats you get in most domestic business class today.
- 0des 4y agoJust six foot? Lucky you! I say that with sincerity from the top of my head to my crinkled flight-legs.
- bhelkey 4y ago> Lie flat does not exist for those of a normal height if you're talking about the luxury pods. > Just six foot? The average height for men in the US is 5'9" [1]. The Netherlands is the world's tallest country with an average height of 5'11" [1]. [1] https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men#u-s-height https://www.healthline.com/health/average-height-for-men#u-s...
- Symmetry 4y agoThe big difference is that back in the day we had the interstate commerce commission establishing a minimum ticket price so that airlines didn't have to engage in "ruinous" price competition. Everyone had to pay what would now be business class ticket prices but everybody got business class service because that was the only thing airlines could compete on.