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>incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more. They don't do it because it's completely inefficient to carry this weight and was
by vl 4y ago
>incident is in a large part why they don't put airstairs on planes any more.
They don't do it because it's completely inefficient to carry this weight and waste this space from economic point of view. It's way better to carry few more paying passengers instead.
They still carry things like this on private jets, i.e. Golfstream.
- gsnedders 4y agoAn airstair is literally just any built-in stairway on an aircraft—it doesn't have to be at the back. They continue to exist as options on the 737 and A320 families to this day, and are disproportionately specified by low-cost carriers (Ryanair have a lot of their 737s with them, for example), as although they're a weight penalty they decrease ground equipment required to service the aircraft (reducing costs), and can be deployed almost as quickly as the door can be opened helping reducing turnaround times (increasing sectors flown per day).