Pain

[c9]

As neat as it might be, I don't think I could handle the crowds on a flight on an Airbus A380.



Check out the coach section... 3 seats at each window, and four more in the middle... gah.

Update: For comparison, here's a typical 747 seating layout, with 416 passengers in 3 classes.

Comments

[primary-suspect.livejournal.com]

I don't think the A380 is going to be a huge seller so there is a good chance none of us will ever fly on one unless we go out of our way...

[rostin79.livejournal.com]

and you know you'd be smack in the middle section, in the middle, with 3 screaming kids all around you, and have puke on your shirt from one of the little fuckers.

[ironmanjt.livejournal.com]

Same as a 747 though.
I can't believe they are going to do 2-2-2 in first. ICK!

[putaindemerde.livejournal.com]

Jesus, claustrophobia much? :-P

I hate planes anyway... I hate crowded ones even more... and that plane crowded? oh, heck... I'm dizzy and sweating just thinking about it...

Are these new planes or have they been around for a while? And which airlines carry/will carry them?

[thespos]

I have flown on a 747, and it was just so huge...

I could barely handle the quantity of people on the A320 this week - it was a moral imperative to be upgraded to first class.

I will say, tho, that the Airbus planes tend to be roomier, both for legroom and width. I may just be lucky in the planes I have been on or the airlines I have flown with, but they tend not to pack them in quite the same way as they do on Boeing jets.

[scott8424.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine the nightmare in customs if two of those arrive at the same time? A longer line than the women's restroom at an Air Supply concert.

[jamincan.livejournal.com]

To be fare the 747 economy seating is 3-4-3 as well, while the upper-deck economy on the A380 is 2-4-2. It seems to me that the major loss is for first class with the 2-2-2. I wonder if airlines would actually go for that configuration of if they'll opt for something else instead.

[sisyphus238.livejournal.com]

Perfect vehicle for the Rapture, assuming there are enough to fill it.

[cap-hill-latte.livejournal.com]

I wonder if they'll have to retrofit airport lounges to handle the crowds. The BA flight to London is one of the few 747s that leave SEATAC - they have to use the lounges for four or five gates to hold everyone before boarding. Including a glass 'holding pen' for the steerage class passengers to wait in while they watch the upper deck passengers decend from the executive lounge - with spiral staircase, natch.