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Aviation Forum / Country Specific / Australian Group / July 2009Is this the future?
http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel > http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel Well they stand in buses and trains. >> http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel > > Well they stand in buses and trains. More Chinese Madness driven by greed >> Well they stand in buses and trains. > More Chinese Madness driven by greed More Australian madness, driven by racism and intolerance perhaps? The Chinese don't have a monopoly on greed. GFC anyone?! GB  SignatureMy friend Steve is an atheist. He has a bumper sticker that reads "Honk if you love Jesus". When someone honks, he gives them the finger. Hello. > > More Chinese Madness driven by greed > More Australian madness, driven by racism and intolerance perhaps? > The Chinese don't have a monopoly on greed. GFC anyone?! Yes, the Chinese are greedy. But so are the Irish. An Irish Airline CEO, Michael O'Leary, wants to remove as many toilets as possible & charge his passengers 50 cents to the remaining toilet (s) on his Ryanair flights within 2 years, for f.ck's sake!: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2461074/Ryanair-toilet-tax-in-two-year s.html > Hello. > [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2461074/Ryanair-toilet-tax-in-two-year s.html The UK paper the SUN is never a reliable resource :) However gives a new slant on the term Bog Irish One thing I like about the paddyś is when they tell you to go and get xxxed you look forward to the trip :) > Well they stand in buses and trains. There are just so many issues with this it isn't funny... Buses and trains aren't susceptible to clear air turbulence - what happens when passengers have to be strapped in? What about if the pax. need oxygen - do standing passengers miss out? What about emergency exits?... If a plane is certified to carry x passengers in an all economy config. then carrying more endangers all the passengers and crew (not just those standing)... I'm sure others will think of more.... As another poster said - just greed (and yes, in this case Chinese greed)... Regards, BB. >> Well they stand in buses and trains. > > There are just so many issues with this it isn't funny... > > Buses and trains aren't susceptible to clear air turbulence - what happens > when passengers have to be strapped in? They seemed to be talking about a bar-stool style arrangement, with straps. > What about if the pax. need oxygen - do standing passengers miss out? One would assume that the oxygen systems are augmented appropriately. > What about emergency exits?... If a plane is certified to carry x passengers > in an all economy config. then carrying more endangers all the passengers > and crew (not just those standing)... Bear in mind that the Chinese are generally smaller that Caucasians. It should be possible to a given number of Chinese out faster than a similar number of Caucasians. Of course, theory is one thing, and practice another. Experiments would have to be done. > I'm sure others will think of more.... > > As another poster said - just greed (and yes, in this case Chinese greed)... > > Regards, > BB. Think of the advantages. How could anyone hijack an aircraft if passengers are packed in like sardines? "Tell the pilot to divert to Cuba - pass it on." But it sounds like a rather strange publicity stunt to me. Sylvia. > Bear in mind that the Chinese are generally smaller that Caucasians. They are? I'm sure the northern Chinese will be surprised to learn that. Signaturehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8 - KRudd at his finest. "The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!" - Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity. "This is the recession we had to have!" - Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession. "Silly old bugger!" - Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more. "By 1990, no child will live in poverty" - Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election. "A billion trees ..." - Borke, pissed as a newt again. "Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor general!" - Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his appointee for Governor General John Kerr. >> Bear in mind that the Chinese are generally smaller that Caucasians. > > They are? I'm sure the northern Chinese will be surprised to learn that. What proportion of Chinese are northern Chinese? Sylvia. >>> Bear in mind that the Chinese are generally smaller that Caucasians. >> >> They are? I'm sure the northern Chinese will be surprised to learn that. > > What proportion of Chinese are northern Chinese? About half (provided you draw the line in the right place). Signaturehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ipvdBnU8F8 - KRudd at his finest. "The Labour Party is corrupt beyond redemption!" - Labour hasbeen Mark Latham in a moment of honest clarity. "This is the recession we had to have!" - Paul Keating explaining why he gave Australia another Labour recession. "Silly old bugger!" - Well known ACTU pisspot and sometime Labour prime minister Bob Hawke responding to a pensioner who dared ask for more. "By 1990, no child will live in poverty" - Bob Hawke again, desperate to win another election. "A billion trees ..." - Borke, pissed as a newt again. "Well may we say 'God save the Queen' because nothing will save the governor general!" - Egotistical shithead and pompous fuckwit E.G. Whitlam whining about his appointee for Governor General John Kerr. > http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel Didn't Bob Newhart suggest this back in the 60's, I think it was "The Grace L. Ferguson Airline"(and storm door company)" Gerrit wrote... > http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel So, what do they do about turbulence or say, uncommanded pitch down attitudes? Or, on takeoff, the accelleration, or on landing the braking? do they tie the pax's wrists to the hand straps... > Gerrit wrote... > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Only the ones from Tibet or Falun Gung > http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,25711427-5014090,00.html?referrer=em ail&source=eDM_travel Looks like Ryanair are planning something similar http://www.moneyhighstreet.com/blog/3104/ |
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