At the end of a recent post I raised the puzzle of why there are no relatively inexpensive sleeper flights. Apparently Air New Zealand not only reads my posts, they read them long before they are written because, as two readers pointed out, they have been working on the problem. One solution, already there, is a
I have another question of a somewhat similar nature. Just somewhat !
Why is air travel still so slow? For decades now, flights take the same (large) number of hours to fly direct between 2 points. For example, NYC to London. SF to Boston. Why has there been no innovation in this area of engineering? What is the bottleneck?
I feel like there is sufficient mechanical technology that we should be able to construct something that can transform from 6 seats into 6 beds, or possibly some other ratio, so planes could adapt to what tickets people buy or perhaps shift mid-flight.
When I took a sleeper train in thailand recently, the seats were setup in such a way that you had room for 4 people facing each other (a little tightly in) per spot, or you could turn that into 2 bunkbeds. Then for sleeper tickets you sell them such that each row has only 4 total tickets.
I have another question of a somewhat similar nature. Just somewhat !
Why is air travel still so slow? For decades now, flights take the same (large) number of hours to fly direct between 2 points. For example, NYC to London. SF to Boston. Why has there been no innovation in this area of engineering? What is the bottleneck?
Where can I find the original post?
I feel like there is sufficient mechanical technology that we should be able to construct something that can transform from 6 seats into 6 beds, or possibly some other ratio, so planes could adapt to what tickets people buy or perhaps shift mid-flight.
When I took a sleeper train in thailand recently, the seats were setup in such a way that you had room for 4 people facing each other (a little tightly in) per spot, or you could turn that into 2 bunkbeds. Then for sleeper tickets you sell them such that each row has only 4 total tickets.