Air Travel, Chinese Style: No Seats
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 4, 2009 02:20 JST
- Tags: Aeroplanes, Bizarre, Business, China, Made in China, Public Transport
A Chinese low-cost airline is planning to run flights with standing room only tickets, with passengers being made to stand for the entire duration of their flight, allowing up to a 40% increase in human cargo.
The president of the airline, Spring Airlines, claims the Vice-Premier Zheng Dejiang suggested the idea:
“He suggested that, for a lower price, passengers should be able to get on a plane like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very convenient.”
The plan would entail discounted standing room only tickets, which has apparently been previously mooted by aircraft maker Airbus, with passengers strapped to boards during takeoff and landing.
Approval has not yet been granted, but with the blessing of so senior a figure the president is confident of approval.
Via Wanderlust.
What could possibly go wrong…
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what's that in between her legs?
...The control Yoke. AKA the Joystick. ;)
Joy. Stick. I c wat you did thar. (´∀`)
if u dun hav money to pay for normal ticket, stay in ur own country!
china is huge... you need to fly in air lines if you want to save days in travel time... so basically its is gonna be "like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very convenient” ....
"...with passengers strapped to boards during takeoff and landing."
Will they strap them down using shibari techniques??
Joy stick in the cock pit. Interesting...
[Looks at cockpit instruments]
Hmm... This stick says "FLAP". I wonder what it does...
FLAP down, FLAP up. FLAP down, FLAP up. FLAP down, FLAP up....
Don't be ridiculous anon, the "FLAP" stick is obviously used to increase your "lift".
The Chinese require their pilots to know how to poledance.
oh...
It's a wathyoumaycallit...
Scrooge syndrome? ^^;; LOL
Something to make the pilot getting used to standing,I think... Considering that the seats will be removed...
Perhaps there's a hidden function for female pilots... Interesting...
YAAAA CHIKAN ACTION TAKEN TO A BRAND NEW LEVEL!!!
This is obvious fake news -.-
It's impossible as China does not even manufacture planes, thus they can't change much of it.
Also with that many people the plane won't even fly as it would be overweight. 40% increase in passengers means 40% increase in luggage too. Also, the escape route would be blocked as well.
Who ever believes in this news is really stupid lol
its china and what are they famous for when not in manufacturing of course what else copying <_< PIRATE POWAH
You're forgetting though that the weight of the seats would be eliminated, and it seems you missed the bit about no luggage consignment, again a loss in weight.
Still seems like a late April Fool's joke to me, but eh.
http://www.ge.com/innovation/shanghai/index.html
China does final assembly for Airbus A320 and they also designed and built their own jet the ARJ 21
also...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKL_EpnSp8
its good for you and itll help you with your misinformation problem
Or you never know they could all (men) just wait until the plane departs and molest/rape any hot chick endlessly until the plane stops just like they do on trains in japan..... just a thought though.
soon there will be an eroge for this
there will also be hentai, av, adult novel, 2d pics, 3d pics, doujin, mangas, for this....provided it is not ban by then
Wow...
the economy mode of china is soaring...
“He suggested that, for a lower price, passengers should be able to get on a plane like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very convenient,” Wang said.
This is a stupid-ass idea!
A plane trip is much longer than a bus trip (presuming no crash). Plus time waiting on the runway before take-off. Everyone will be tired and cranky.
They are giving the humans worse conditions than animals (no food is one thing, but no water?!).
And, who goes on a plane flight with _NO_ luggage?
It's _NOT_ convenient.
The next idea they will have is, "We'll fly over various cities (on a most-efficient route), but rather than waste time landing, we'll lower the back ramp and passengers destined for that city will parachute out the back. Oh, but they have to bring back the parachute, or they lose their deposit. (P.S.: no safety guarantees; if they fuck up their landing, we're not responsible.)"
If they want to pack more people on, and make the tickets cheaper and more popular, they could provide bunk-beds instead of seats. With a privacy curtain, it will be easier than ever to join the Mile-High Club.
but planes tickets are expensive and this is a clever (although in my opinion, an impending disaster) idea. Lol for 30 bucks, you can forgo water, food, air and movement and arrive in a different city hundreds of miles away for half the time of a bus...interesting...?
Impending disaster is what you got right.
There's a reason why people can't be standing during flights, even short ones.
What worries me is the fact that an airline president is stupid enough to not know it.
I mean, I think it's kinda obvious, living in a capitalist world like we do, that if that was a smart and lucrative action to take, it would've been made ages ago.
Any flight is succeptible to a high degree of turbulence during flights, short or not.
And those turbulences could do damages equal to a bus crash if you're not sitting down.
But well, considering it's China and all (human rights and justice system considered, it's not about prejudice or the chinese people as a whole), the airline president probably thought "Fuck the passangers, I just want more money, lawsuits won't reach me specially from poor people that has to buy "standing up" tickets".
Yeah bunkbeds would work out better
Private beds or even little rooms on airplanes would be great. I think British Airways does something like this in their first class compartments, only without the curtains. However, they would make tickets much more expensive because of space they'd have to sacrifice.
Also, there might be some serious security issues with giving people total privacy for long periods of time on an airplane.
Oh, you meant bunks. Never mind. That would be interesting.
CHINA WILL GROW smaller.
Not anytime soon.
i c wat u did der
eko-no-mi moo-do...
eko-no-mi moodo desu.
do you see what i did there?
hur hur hur
"What could possibly go wrong…"
Pilot: dear passengers, we're going to enter a thunderstorm, so it's possible that we're going to experience some turbulence... please, make use of your safety belts.
Passengers:...
"...please sit down on the floor like good little kids."
They are not allowed to sit...
Let alone there is not enough space to do so xD
Passenger #1: OK, everyone join hands or hug each other, theres a storm coming.
*All Passengers hug one woman*.
lolz
That's highly unlikely to happen. As i've been w/ the Chinese society every summer , and having some friends w/ a half-chinese blood but carrying on a strong Chinese cultural background. They are surprisingly conservative in such a matter of public issue (esp the male , they totally disgrace a female if its too casual or esp if its too liberal to look at) and are always money-concerned maniacs (business minded inshort , w/c i think , is too common for them).
wow....time for some free groping, and for good reasons!
Pilot: "Uhh.. We will be in a turbulence for a moment, everyone please tighten your belts. Yes the one around your waist, if you don't have one you can ask your friends or buy one at our official vendor"
Vendor "Beeeeelts!"
I can't say too much about the safety of the matter given how China is known for their quality of manufacturing.
However I'm sure it's just as uncomfortable as being strapped to a board would suggest.
cargo -> fatalities
or in case of sea landing, waterboarding
They should do a men only room, in case of possible molest accusations.
imagine the US style china girl pointing as you and say: you molested me! now marry me!
i wander what will happen to the passengers when their airplane take off and landing... even when on bus also some time hard to stand when it take a corner…
That is the most fucked up thing I think I've ever heard of. I really don't see that being approved of by the ICAO or any other body . . .
NO SEAT, NO LUGGAGE, NO FOOD, NO WATER, FINAL DESTINATION
Oh god, I lol'd.
No washroom... after you take a dump just put it in a plastic bag and fling it outside the window.
On a plane? What about decompression?
who cares?
it's CHINAAAAA!!!!
haven't you heard? they stopped using glas altogether and just leave open holes in the hull to save money and make the flights cheaper!!
You say that as if they'd bother compressing the plane in the first place. Less whining if the passengers have all passed out!
You forgot the whiskey though...
MANLY AIRPLANE RIDE!
lol I see what you did there.
lol I see an upcoming sequel.
This is no new idea. Some European (probably Brithish) airline had the same idea some years ago, but it was never realised.
Because it was a bad idea.
Because Europeans suck at making ideas.
Yup.
Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, Nikola Tesla, Marie Sklodowska Curie, Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell and Alexander Fleming to name but a few, were complete and utter incompetents and didn't add anything to human society or its development.
*sarcasm mode de-activated*
nice. i see what you did there.
that mean no seatbelt ..
cool :3
That would be a fun ride.
There's a certain point where efforts at increased efficiency turn into acts of absurdity.
Though if they offered travelers to be strapped to the wings of the plane I may just have to buy a ticket. You wouldn't be able to get that type of travel experience anywhere else.
is that with a safty belt or with out sir?
its a 9 hr flight if you need the Toilet you had best go now.
it will be an extra 300 for a parachute
lol, though the rate of flight will be far too fast and you wont be able to breath...haha youll die of asphyxiation before reaching cruising speed!
(quote)
"A Chinese low-cost airline is planning to run flights with standing room only tickets, with passengers being made to stand for the entire duration of their flight, allowing up to a 40% increase in human cargo."
I would gather it akin to - "packing more sardines" - into the can labelled ~ Death Airways
No plane.
"What could possibly go wrong..."
Something very right, like mass orgy
all your seats are belong to us
yet another opportunity for all the gropers out there.
ah technology, first it was buses, then trains, now air planes! can't wait for public space transportation, hopefully by then we'll invent skin tight spacesuits for easy groping access.
Stupid fucking idea...
If this does go through, the pilots better have seats or they're fucked.
Are they serious?!! They aren't concerned for the safety of their passenger. Maybe it one of their plan for reducing their population. "Brace for impact everybody. When you hit your head, your dead".
ok theres economy class but what should this class be classified as?
Communist Class?
Certain Death class.
LOL!!! That's very funny!! It certainly is death class.
Haha, while I do find news like this funny, I can't help but feel that you do indeed have a strong bias against China (coming from a Canadian). It's not so much that anything is being distorted, but just from reading the related news headlines, it seems that negative news about China usually emphasizes that it happened in China, while news about other countries often only briefly touch on or neglect the location altogether.
Anyways, on the topic at hand, while certainly there has been a history of safety negligence in China, I highly doubt this sort of thing would be implemented.
The article only pointed out that the airline was Chinese once.. and that was for obvious reasons..
unless you include the title.. but again.. obvious reasons.
but you hardly see any thing like
-men in (which country) raped a school-
Just look at the 4 related articles... I don't even remember any articles that included titles those that for any other country. It's obviously implied that this sort of negative thing is widespread in China when you use titles like 'Chinese Style'.
North Korea: “We’ll Kill a Third of Japan’s Population!”..
Korean Attacks Missile Protestor
North Korean Sex Slaves Sell for $450
Koreans Smash Own National Bird in Rebuke to Yamato | Sankaku Complex
Queen of Sweden Tells Japan to Ban Loli | Sankaku Complex
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Oprah incites race riots in America « Sankaku Complex Forums
and.. I think you have mistaken the purpose of this site..
and.. what would you name this article if you couldn't include China in it..
Air Travel, Fail.. maybe? - not so eye catching
a title that is devious, brings in more page view i guess..
At the same time, none of those except the Korea ones had any hint that the news was representative of the entire country. The last few simply pointed out the opinion or actions of a person. I wouldn't even consider anything about the Rozne Aso one negative.
The equivalent of that in this article would be "Airlines Vice-Premier Zheng Dejiang suggests seatless air travel in China.", or something to that degree.
but that is boring is it not..?
forgive me I regret replying with those examples.. and maybe that was a pointless thing to do, and I admit my opinion was wrong tehe~..
but again.. this site is probably trying to get as many page views as possible.. maybe not in the 'nicest' methods.. but does it really matter? people don't come on this website to read articles of world peace and other idealistic things like that.. well i myself don't..
fundamentally if you are offended with these articles.. why are you here?
ah sorry.. to be honest i didn't read your first comment fully.. it seems you take no offence from this argument..
I have kinda embarrassed myself today..
yeah. tehe~
but this kind of idea seems to be brought up from British before. so why target China?
“I suggested that, for a lower price, passengers should be able to get on a plane like catching a bus, with no seat, no luggage consignment, no food, no water, but very convenient.
oh, and safety are not guarantee.”
-Vice-Premier Zheng Dejiang
srsly... he deserved to be kill by Kira
he is helping kira by killing the sinful
It might be a reasonable idea if it's only local flights (500km max) and on small planes (not jumbo jets). I approve.
knowing china, overloading weight limit, fuel switched with cooking oil, cut cost parts...
wonder how long it can last if the plan has launched
It's only a reasonable idea if it never takes off from the ground.
What the hell?! Chineses treat their own kind like trash? CHINA QUALITY AGAIN?
then throw all your item that MADE IN CHINA out if you have a problem with their quality.
Reminds me of a movie called "Soul Plane"....
they should just hang swings from the ceiling
This can not possibly be safe.
Yet, this plan have been discussed at 2006 already, just don't be serious.
And yet, the one made this plan is probably not a chinese.
But of course China is already known for their track record of "Quality".
I won't be surprised if the plane crashes...
heh, this is the sancom for all time.
and a new world opens for chikan~
This.
c-c-c-c-c-c-c-combo breaker..
wait, where is the combo??
I predict a load of innocent passengers will die in a fiery death
because no seats on a plane=won't end well
next they will try to make the airplane fly without gas or without pilots, or maybe even wings, maybe they will try flying by sitting on the chairs they make
fucking chinese
next they'll be taping you to the wing
you dun want to fuck with the entire population of China.
Yeah, that would be a pretty lengthy ordeal.
no. he'll probably die before reaching even 5% of the population.
This is far and away the most retarded concept I've seen this week.
I have worked for a cargo company in the past and they had an airbus, nothing good can come from this. Those things are huge and even the slightest breeze makes the thing rock. I hear the news now, 2000 people died today when the standing room only plane hit turbulence throwing the passengers around. The plane landed safely but the passangers were mangled.
There's gotta be something to hold on to at least...Maybe it would work if like there were individual stalls or something like that.
I hope this idea passes so I can see it come crashing down
Flying is the safest way to travel? Not anymore! :D
And also in the Chinese news, shortly after implementing the new "standing room only" air travel, Chinese airline crashes have increased 99%.Chinese airline officials blame the additional disasters on improper load balancing.
They'll probably blame it on inferior Imperialist-made airplanes.
China should make airplanes without wings
are you retarded airplanes dun call airplanes without wings.
you don't get the sarcasm?
Without water,is he kidding me?
People need water everywhere,on train,busses etc.
Well how about this:
Make a 2 or 3 tiers of liying beds, placed perpendicular like this
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| \ | \
| \----------------------
\ || || || || || || || | \
| | |
/ || || || || || || || | /
| /----------------------
| / | /
|/ | /
|/
Err, well, this is a plane, the || are beds. So, the passengers may sleep, cutting the need of water or food (you dont need it when sleeping). And they should invent some soporific machine to forcefully put ppl to sleep, like in '5th Element's' shuttle. This will also keep them from panic when the plane will be about to crash.
Ah crap, my ASCII art got fucked up, but you'll get teh idea
free coffins. great...
Standing on a plane for hours? Good luck China.
in flight groping キタ━━━━(゜∀゜)━━━━ッ!
"This is Spaaaartaaaaaaaa ..."
This Is madnesS.... (.), (.)
(O)
Sounds dangerous during turbulence.
Maybe they were tight together to the bar steel mount inside the plane… to avoid such that kind of things...
It reminds me of series Good Luck with Aya Ueto, it was all about passenger services.
Good luck China, or should I say "Goddo roku" hihihi :P
That simply can't be. It's against international flight regulations.
A plane like that just couldn't land on any non-chinese airport. It'll never be allowed to simply taxi in those conditions.
Not to worry, the PRC will just tell nations that object to either accept it or they will stop trading with them. Similar to how they bully nations not to deal with Taiwan.
And some nations are up to their eyeballs in debt to the PRC (Sri Lanka, name one.) that they accept it not matter what law get broken.
Hmmm... You've got a point there.
maybe this is one way to reduce chinas population XD .... think of it ... if they add 40% more passengers in one plane and crash it .... more people die XD
Darwin @ work
I cant take that news for real, i mean, if they could stuff more people in the plane, that means also more stuff to load in the back.. that would be too much weight, WOULDNT IT?
standing?!
well good luck on that..
Another wacky idea from China I do hope that this will not go into effect because there are some people can't stand in a long period and what about food & water?
Traveling by plane will cost more time than traveling with a bullet train.
Human catapult seems like a better idea.
That's actually plan B.
... the most retarded thing ever. Have they even considered the take-off scenario for standing ? not to mention the disruption for balance once it manuevers. I hope they don't learn from a huge massive tragic accident just to realize life is not that for a risky flight.
how come not being able to sit for the entire flight duration is very convenient??
to me,, THAT is tiring....-_-;
卧草泥马勒戈壁TMD一群不长进的
stupit chinan with stupit idea.
that's not our idea, don't you know? you trust sancom more than google?
don't judge the whole race just by 1 person's doing deep shit
What could possibly go wrong…
D E A T H
that's not the only airline. if others don't what to take this they cant take other one. the result doesn't have to be death.
would anyone dare to stand for 24 hours or more?I don't think so..
its for local flight only i think...
What the hell..What are they going to do when there's turbulence??..??
What are they going to use as support???..
Their own feet perhaps?
You know what, why don't we just get everyone to pile in the plane. No clothes, because they take up space. Just shove them all in like sardines, on top of each other, they can have air holes to breathe with. We can put a net over them to keep them in the fuselage (no roof, that costs money too).
Hell, why don't we all just fund matter transportation research? Screw airplanes/cars/buses/motorcycles/bikes/simmilar-things. Beam me up. XD
Come on Artefact, even Wai wai filtered their "news" more than this sensationalist rag....
In before accusations of molestation
This is obviously a conspiracy to kill off people to reduce China's population.
Which anime is that image from?
"human cargo"
Reminds me of a particular movie: First class seats are overly done complete with spa blah blah blah I can't recall (call it the epitome of luxury), while economy class is a bus-style standing place for passengers, uses old-school TVs that depend on aerials and blah blah blah.
All the passengers are gonna be dead by lead-poisoning by the time they get to their destination anywayz >.>
Feels like the Mile high club.