{"id":16,"date":"2006-04-25T08:11:18","date_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2006\/04\/25\/standing-room-only\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T08:11:18","modified_gmt":"2006-04-25T13:11:18","slug":"standing-room-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=16","title":{"rendered":"standing room only?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: &#8220;Airbus offers standing room &#8216;seats&#8217; Report: Airbus in discussion with Asian airlines to offer padded backboards to have flyers stand, increasing capacity of largest jet to 853 passengers.&#8221; [<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/04\/25\/news\/companies\/airline_standing\/index.htm?section=cnn_topstories\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original story<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting idea from our European friends: take a plane that will hold 500+ people seated, and install them all in a standing orientation instead. This would increase capacity to about 850 passengers. Fantastic. The only problem? Such standing arrangements could only be done on &#8220;short-haul flights like an island-hopping route in Japan&#8221;. The Airbus A380 is a super jumbo jet designed for carrying lots of stuff a long ways &#8211; not for short-haul routes.<\/p>\n<p>Like Boeing&#8217;s 747 series, Airbus plans to use its newest jet to handle large passenger and cargo loads on inter-continental routes. You don&#8217;t see many 747s flying from Atlanta to Tallahassee &#8211; it&#8217;s overkill, and inefficient. Large planes take a lot more energy (ie fuel) to get into the air than small planes, so using them on short-haul routes is not efficient. An airline would be better-off flying a pair of 757s than one 747 generally for short distances (besides the fact that using more smaller planes allows greater schedule flexibility).<\/p>\n<p>On those London-Tokyo routes, sure using a big plane makes sense &#8211; they have the range, and can carry a lot. But I wouldn&#8217;t want to have to &#8216;stand&#8217; for 14 hours.<\/p>\n<p>I think Airbus is grasping at straws in trying to find uses for the new jet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN: &#8220;Airbus offers standing room &#8216;seats&#8217; Report: Airbus in discussion with Asian airlines to offer padded backboards to have flyers stand, increasing capacity of largest jet to 853 passengers.&#8221; [original story] Here&#8217;s an interesting idea from our European friends: take a plane that will hold 500+ people seated, and install them all in a &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=16\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">standing room only?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}