New Constitutional Amendment

[Disgustipated]

I'd rather they not have airplane seats. Instead make beds for everyone on board. You'd obviously have to make them racks or bunks to fit everyone. That way you can stretch your legs, chill out and watch a movie all stretched out. Eating is the only difficult thing to do, but who really cares about eating.

 

[Visorslash]

This should be a rule for all airlines. I hate it when the person in front of me does that, I don't like to be done to myself, so I don't do it to others. It does make that tray useless as well.

Haven't been on a long enough flight to warrant actual complaining to the person in front, but that may change.

 

[mitsho]

I hear the pilot already over the speaker system: "Dear Guests, we are now entering the airspace of the United States. Please bring your seats into an upright position since the US consitution forbids seats to be in a reclined position. If you will not comply, we need to arrest you and turn you over to the police as soon as we land in Houston"



Absolutely support this.

 

[Disgustipated]

This should be a rule for all airlines. I hate it when the person in front of me does that, I don't like to be done to myself, so I don't do it to others. It does make that tray useless as well.

Haven't been on a long enough flight to warrant actual complaining to the person in front, but that may change.

Everyone should recline their seats. What do you need the tray for. Just put on some headphones and sleep like the rest of us.

 

[Zack]

Who needs breathing room?

 

[Disgustipated]

good point, they should just deploy those oxygen masks for the entire flight. Better than breathing the next person over's farts or horrible perfume.

 

[Souron]

If you want more space between you and the person in front, take the train.

 

[Tee Kay]

Take away my reclining airplane chair over (or from under?) my dead body.

Just a few degrees of reclining makes the plane trip infinitely more bearable.

If you want more space between you and the person in front, take the train.

Give me a train that travels coast to coast cheaply and in, say, no more than between double to triple the time it'd take for a plane, and I'd gladly consider it. I love trains. Unfortunately a train trip from Melbourne to Perth is only really an option for the rich and takes three days.

 

[Camikaze]

So I was thinking, wouldn't a more effective solution be to ban abnormally tall people (i.e. those 6' or over)? They do always take up more than their fair share of space, after all.

 

[JohannaK]

Brilliant. That's the third option that I voted for.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

So I was thinking, wouldn't a more effective solution be to ban abnormally tall people (i.e. those 6' or over)? They do always take up more than their fair share of space, after all.

No worries, I was thinking as long we can ban short people asking us to reach up and get stuff for them (in life, not just on planes). They always contribute less than their fair share of reaching, after all

 

[Camikaze]

Well, I guess there could at least be some sort of stepladder carrying requirement.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Well, I guess there could at least be some sort of stepladder carrying requirement.

I'd vote for that. "All tall people pay a premium to fly and all short people to at all times carry step ladders"

Imagine in a tight contest for a girl between two guys at a bar. All things being equal in terms of money, charm, good looks etc, I'm glad I'm not the poor guy going home with the stepladder while I'm going with her.

 

[Tee Kay]

Well, I guess there could at least be some sort of stepladder carrying requirement.

That'd take up more space

 

[JohannaK]

Not necessarily. It should be able to be carried around as a relatively small and light backpack.

 

[Souron]

Give me a train that travels coast to coast cheaply and in, say, no more than between double to triple the time it'd take for a plane, and I'd gladly consider it. I love trains. Unfortunately a train trip from Melbourne to Perth is only really an option for the rich and takes three days.

Here in the US, train prices are cheaper than flights, but take much longer. To cross the country it would cost ~$200 to cross the country, from Boston to Los Angeles, by train. To fly it would cost $300. Unfortunately, it would take 80 hours, compared to 12 hours by plane.

For shorter distances, when travel time is not a major issue, and where the option is avalible, Amtrak is generally the most comfortable way to travel.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

It's the whole rigmarole of flying that does my head in. If I could just rock up to the airport, not be extorted for a reasonable parking spot, check out the departure board for the 8.15 to Kiev (missed that one? No worries, catch the 8.30), grab a ticket and wait at the plane station to board, it would be awesome.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

delete

 

[Zack]

If you want more space between you and the person in front, take the train.

Like I said, not feasible for me.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Yeah, you still have to pass the visual inspection but you can book it on some airlines.

But really the answer here is fly business class. It's brutal to fork out the cash and you know you're getting ripped, but when you board and are greeted with "Oh, Mr......please come this way, here's your champagne", and you order from a menu, well it's awesome. On long haul flights with a stopover, you can even have a proper sleep in the airline's lounge and they wake you up for your flight and have a shower.

I even got some putting practice in on the artificial green in the airport lounge at Kuala Lumpur!!

I've only flown non-tourist once in my life. It was incredible. The far more attractive stewardess paid so much attention to me that I actually thought it might be possible to date her.

To those who claim there isn't any issue with legroom in tourist, my legs typically touch the seat in front when it is in its "full upright position for takeoff", much less when it is reclined. If I was ever told to assume the "crash position" of bending over as far as I could, I couldn't do so.