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You can get up and walk around on a plane.
by toble 13y ago
You can get up and walk around on a plane.
- sbashyal 13y agoNot for the first 30 minutes - which in this case is the entire trip.
- toble 13y agoI think one advantage of air travel is it's distracting. Busy flight attendants, announcements from pilots, plane moving to the runway, taking off... so there's less reason to concentrate on the lack of space while stuck in the seat.
- greedo 13y agoI'm sure the seatbacks would all have some net connected display for movies or actual computing.
- corwinstephen 13y agoAre you? I wouldn't rule it out, but personally I think getting an outside signal into a sealed capsule which is moving so rapidly that it must use battery power rather than a physically connected power source seems more than trivial.
- umeshunni 13y agoYou can yak on your cellphone (or watch movies on your tablet) for the entire 35 minutes of this journey.
- marshray 13y agoNah, wifi would travel great in a long metal tube.
- corwinstephen 13y agoFor 300 miles? Or are you proposing spacing hubs out along the journey, in which case, wouldn't frequent reconnection be an issue?
- SolarNet 13y agoIn this case it looks like you could have a great view.
- yaddayadda 13y agoHis proposal includes "entertainment displays", so there is some sort of built in distraction technology.
- VikingCoder 13y agoGreat point.
- seanalltogether 13y agoIn THIS case. What if this becomes standardized and more routes are hooked up?
- greedo 13y agoMost flights I've been on in the last decade, you don't want to leave your seat for anything except a bathroom break. It's not like we're flying on Pan Am Clippers with pianos and seven course meals. Air travel is a glorified cattle car unless you're willing to be financially raped for first class or a chartered jet.
- pbreit 13y agoBut you could.
- sitharus 13y agoThe hop between two major cities where I live (~800km apart) takes around 50 minutes on a plane. For 15 minutes you can't get up, and for the remainder low altitudes keep the seatbelt sign on due to turbulence. For the advantage of a short journey people will put up with it, especially if it can get you to the centre of the city rather than an airport on the outskirts.
- cenhyperion 13y agoWhat airlines are you flying on?
- toble 13y agoI rarely fly. I have used British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Easy Jet.
- DonPedro 13y agoI'd rather be stuck in my seat for 35 minutes than to travel to an airport, go through security, check-in, waiting and boarding, fly for 90 minutes and then apply all the logistics in the other end. Your point is valid, but I would contend that the total package is still superior.