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I'd love to visit Australia and SE Asia but am hesitant with those long flights. I'd probably be fine with layflat seats but those are well beyond what I'd ever
by wildzzz 3mo ago
I'd love to visit Australia and SE Asia but am hesitant with those long flights. I'd probably be fine with layflat seats but those are well beyond what I'd ever consider paying for an airline ticket.
- Scoundreller 3mo agoWould make sense to offer packages with lay-flat seats in shifts (possibly formally/informally for people on the same ticket).
- 27183 3mo agoYou could pack a lot more in if you sedate them and put them in racks like they have at the morgue. TBH I'd sign up for that on a long flight if the sedative recovery wasn't bad.
- throwaway173738 3mo agoNext stop Phlosten Paradise.
- 27183 3mo agoThis is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote it down ;)
- post-it 3mo agoJust like The Jaunt by Stephen King. "It's longer than you think, dad! ...about 22 hours."
- throwaway270925 3mo agoAh yes, the B.A. Baracus method! I'd use that!
- alwa 3mo agoEspecially on the same routes where you’d think about using this kind of airliner... https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skynest https://www.airnewzealand.com/economy-skynest
- inigyou 3mo agoYou just know this is going to be 2-3 times the price of an economy seat, which means you're going to buy the economy seat anyway. In flights, price beats everything else.
- alwa 3mo agoI think this is an ancillary specifically for economy class passengers—you pay a certain amount to reserve a 4-hour slot on a bunk or something. I have no idea, but my guess is economy + nap slot would still come in well under the cost of a business seat. Plus they can sell those same 6 berths what, 4 or 5 times over in the same 22-hour flight? If I recall correctly they’re not certified for use during taxi takeoff and landing, I’d imagine due to orderly-evacuation kinds of requirements.
- kylehotchkiss 3mo agoYou can play the points game and win - Singapore biz from US west coast booked a year in advance is within the signup bonus amount :)
- anonzzzies 3mo agoMany of colleagues do this all the time, usually via the Middle East. I did it before; it sucks but with enough gin tonic and melatonin it goes by in with too much pain.
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- inigyou 3mo agoI've traveled UK to Australia a few times. Not nonstop, but with stops in SE Asia, basically 2x13 hours plus a few hours airport time. It sucks, but you get over it because how else are you going to get there? If you don't suffer blood clots or something, it isn't really actively dangerous.
- stackghost 3mo ago>2x13 hours plus a few hours airport time. That sounds like pure torture
- inigyou 3mo agoIsn't everything, really? A dentist's appointment for example. It has an end, and then you're glad you had the courage to go through it.
- stackghost 3mo agoThe longest I've spent in a dentist's chair is perhaps an hour, when I had braces as a teen. Being cooped up in a metal tube for 13 hours, knowing you had to do the same thing tomorrow, and then the same thing two more fucking times on your way home, is not worth any vacation to me.
- inigyou 3mo agoThen don't do it for vacation. A resort in Australia is no more valuable to you than one in Florida (if you're in the US). Do it for something more meaningful.
- 27183 3mo ago> how else are you going to get there? Sailing would be more fun, IMO. Might take a quarter or half a year though.