Airbone Bloodbath

[Mega]

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The Plane looks great, am told it have very long legs & you can fill it......from now on YOU MUST FILL it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisag.../#32daa1956454

3,400 miles

[GRG55]

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The Plane looks great, am told it have very long legs & you can fill it......from now on YOU MUST FILL it!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisag.../#32daa1956454

3,400 miles

3400 miles is NOT a regional market. The fuel efficiency might be important, but who would replace an A320 series with an A220 in this market, at these fuel prices? Less capacity, no commonality of type rating, and thousands of low time A320s available for a pittance.

I expect this is going to be a hard sell...

[shiny!]

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seating arrangements will have to be totally changed, american, for example, has progressively increased the number of seats per plane by reducing pitch and having thinner seatbacks. they will have to do a 180o.

whereas the prior model has been to have as many people on board as possible, the new model will have to be to maximize revenue per passenger with a limited number of passengers per flight.

all business class with current business class prices might be too expensive to fill those seats. current "premium economy" prices, or higher, will probably become a minimum. i can imagine seat layouts resembling those of private planes, but on a larger scale, with isolated individual or paired seats at the window positions, every other row [vs current layouts]. a much classier but much more expensive proposition. if they don't want to invest in reconfiguring their plane seating again, they could just seat people in singles or pairs at the windows, every other row with other seats left empty.

this means roughly 2-5 empty seats per occupied seat. fares would have to be roughly 3.5-4x current levels for revenues to be unchanged.

the age of mass air transportation is over, barring an effective vaccine.

What about trains and subways? Those are popular and crowded modes of transportation in certain parts of the world. In Japan will they run the trains mostly empty to ensure social distancing, or will people just wear masks as per ususal?

[GRG55]

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...In Japan will they run the trains mostly empty to ensure social distancing...

That would be a big change in Tokyo. And put a few white gloved folks out of work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYefhPALCpU

[shiny!]

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That would be a big change in Tokyo. And put a few white gloved folks out of work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYefhPALCpU

Holy heavens! Even sardines have it better than that! I wonder how many people have died of suffocation or heart attacks in those cars?

[Milton Kuo]

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In Japan will they run the trains mostly empty to ensure social distancing, or will people just wear masks as per ususal?

I suspect that in Japan, things will go back to normal when this ridiculous virus finally blows over. What may change is that Japan may impose special restrictions on visitors coming from or having visited China, the only industrialized country I'm aware of to have had repeated instances of nasty disease outbreaks due to unsanitary conditions or practices.

[Mega]

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https://news.sky.com/story/coronavir...vival-11983452

They not a Flag carrier so, no chance

[Mega]

Re: Airbone Bloodbath