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from the Airbus-Wants-Your-Flight-to-Suck-Even-More dept.
Airbus has been working on making the economics of the A380 even better for airlines who buy it: pack 11 seats into a row:
Airbus has found a way to make flying economy even worse. That’s quite a feat, given how crummy the experience is these days. The trick, it turns out, is eliminating one the few remaining saving graces of air travel: better than even odds you won’t be squeezed into a middle seat. Generally, you’ve got a two in three chance of landing an aisle or a window.
But now, airlines flying the Airbus A380, the largest commercial jet on the planet, can reduce those odds. The European plane maker announced this week that it will offer a 3-5-3 cabin configuration, creating rows with 11 seats.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, the future of civilized air travel lies with airships.
(Score: 2) by subs on Saturday April 18 2015, @08:19PM
Precisely how I see this. All I see in the comments section here is a bunch of whiny entitled people crying over first-world problems. If they want their space, they need to pay for it. There's simply no way around it, many airlines are already marginally profitable as-is, while the regulatory burdens and technological expenses are the highest they've ever been. Most of these people have no freakin' idea just how unbelievably expensive things are as soon as the sticker "aerospace-grade" is slapped on.