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Are airlines considering standing-room-only 'seats'?
April 27, 2006
As airlines join
the chorus of complaints about
rising fuel costs, one aircraft manufacturer
is reportedly shopping around
an idea to cram more bodies onto flights:
a standing-room-only section.
The New York Times reports that
Airbus has been quietly making a pitch for
a standing section on flights, in which
passengers would be "propped against a padded backboard,
held in place with a harness… The result is an additional
six seats on a typical Boeing 737 for a
total of 156, and as many as 12 new seats
on a Boeing 757 for a total of 200."
Airbus flatly denies that it's developed a
standing-room-only proposal, with one spokesperson telling
CNN that the NYT report is "crap."
via: BoingBoing
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murmur categories: travel
tags: consumers consumer news consumerism travel Airbus airlines airplanes fuel
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