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kljhgfvgbn
17y ago
Yes evacuation on take off and landing is very important. However the regs don't differentiate about the stage of the flight, even if you were only allowed to use the bed during cruise, at 30,000 over the ocean - the same time applies.
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17y ago
There are a couple of larger models where the crew rest area is in the cargo hold. It's a removable unit the full width of the plane - equal to two of those 5sided luggage pods and is very comfortable. Airlines looked at using them as sleep
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17y ago
In terms of single type, domestic only, cheap tickets and informal staff they do. They do still do seat numbers unlike SWA/Easyjet - don't understand why. Yes if you are flying long haul with a family you want to sit together, but a typical
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17y ago
My university is banning under 18s after several centuries of admitting brilliant child prodigies. Simply because government rules call for detailed background checks for anyone working with children. We aren't sure if this would only appl
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17y ago
But it doesn't give them much negotiating power with Boeing. That's why Easyjet recently bought a bunch of A320s, you can bet the next round of shopping at Boeing will be a lot more interesting.
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17y ago
The point of the SWA article though, is that airlines don't seem to realise that people carrying masses of carry-on onto the plane slow down the boarding/exiting so much they delay the flight and cost far more money than handling bags would
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17y ago
I'm assuming SE are going to have an in-house appliance or virtual machine version for companies. No company is going to have it's knowledge base on someone else's servers - especially not any industry 'knowledge rich' (urghhh) enough to ne
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17y ago
Simple solution, the penalty for an official classifying something as secret because it was illegal, or they were doing a deal for a supplier or they were covering their butts could be the same as that for revealing a real secret.
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17y ago
Almost, easyjet and then Ryanair copied the single type, low prices and short routes idea of SouthWestern. What they forgot to copy was the honest price, no fees policy and the extremely helpful and friendly staff of SWA and the Canadian eq
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17y ago
The airport charges the airlines for handling bags, only a couple of $ but the cash strapped airlines want to get that back from you and by the time they have collected the money and processed the fee it ends up costing them $10-15 so they