The way the airline industry is going, there may soon be a lack of seats on airplanes and passengers will be strapped to walls for the duration of their flights like an amusement ride. As airlines continue to take away precious centimeters and inches from your personal space on board their planes, one Colombian airline is coming far too close to making you stand when flying with them.
VivaColombia is close to removing all seats from planes and working on ways to essentially make customers stand during flights in an effort to maximize the space available to cram more passengers on board. The potential plan would supposedly cut down on airfare costs to customers and will ideally be attractive to business people on the go and those looking to travel during peak holiday dates.
Show me one person traveling for business who would not want to be sitting down reviewing their materials in their seat, VivaColombia. Just one.
“There are people out there right now researching whether you can fly standing up – we’re very interested in anything that makes travel less expensive,” VivaColombia founder and CEO William Shaw said to The Miami Herald. OK, that’s fine. But people are researching terrible ideas all the time. This is a terrible idea.
“Who cares if you don’t have an in-flight entertainment system for a one-hour flight? Who cares that there aren’t marble floors… or that you don’t get free peanuts,” Shaw asked.
True. Short flights do not need such amenities, even for those who get bored easily. After all, that’s what an iPad, laptop, portable BlueRay player, and the Nintendo 3DS are for, right? But who wants to use those devices standing up… in flight? Who cares if you lose your balance standing up through turbulence?
This is a terrible idea. Who in their right mind suggested this as an idea to explore in the first place?
