sanant0n@yahoo.com wrote:
> New York Times
> April 25, 2006
> One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand
> By CHRISTOPHER ELLIOTT
>
> The airlines have come up with a new answer to an old question: How
> many passengers can be squeezed into economy class?
Yes the same story was in the International Herald Tribune.
I suppose that for short inter-island flights in Japan, it'd be no worse
than being packed into a subway car for 45 minutes.
I wonder if a plane with 800 passengers could pass the evacuation test,
where the plane must be evacuated in a certain amount of time.
The real problem for AirBus is that the A380 is shaping up to be a
commercial flop, so they are disparately trying to find new ways to sell
the plane. Configuring it as a "flying bus" and packing in the
passengers, is one new sales angle. Unfortunately, not a lot of airports
are going to be accommodate the A380, so this plan is probably not feasible. |