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Unbelievably, Ryanair are investigating whether it can install stools on aircrafts so as to cram more people into them. Apparently, the idea is that during takeoffs and landings, they would be strapped to the stools but could stand up during the rest of the flight.
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that air travel was exciting. People put on their best clothes and arrived at airports ninety minutes before takeoff full of expectation that even in tourist class there would be pleasant service staff and reasonable meals.
How things have changed. Now we have to get to airports three hours before departure. Security checks are more stringent than ever (though I for one wouldn’t argue about that). What one can take on board is strictly limited. Seat space seems to have become smaller and the seats more uncomfortable. Staff are overworked and often surly. Unless one is travelling first or club class, the meals are generally dreadful. And the whole experience is summed up in the oft-used description of air travel as being by ‘cattle class’.
One understands the need for airlines to reduce their costs, but there is a limit surely? If Ryanair carry on the way they are going (possibly also charging to use the toilet, buy sick bags, etc.) travel with that airline is likely to be as exciting - and as crowded and tiring - as travel on the London Underground.
And with people standing up all over the place, potentially dangerous!
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Unbelievably, Ryanair are investigating whether it can install stools on aircrafts so as to cram more people into them. Apparently, the idea is that during takeoffs and landings, they would be strapped to the stools but could stand up during the rest of the flight.
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that air travel was exciting. People put on their best clothes and arrived at airports ninety minutes before takeoff full of expectation that even in tourist class there would be pleasant service staff and reasonable meals.
How things have changed. Now we have to get to airports three hours before departure. Security checks are more stringent than ever (though I for one wouldn’t argue about that). What one can take on board is strictly limited. Seat space seems to have become smaller and the seats more uncomfortable. Staff are overworked and often surly. Unless one is travelling first or club class, the meals are generally dreadful. And the whole experience is summed up in the oft-used description of air travel as being by ‘cattle class’.
One understands the need for airlines to reduce their costs, but there is a limit surely? If Ryanair carry on the way they are going (possibly also charging to use the toilet, buy sick bags, etc.) travel with that airline is likely to be as exciting - and as crowded and tiring - as travel on the London Underground.
And with people standing up all over the place, potentially dangerous!
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