Pricey distancing

dealmaker · May 5, 2020

Pricey distancing

Frontier Airlines is going to start charging passengers extra to sit next to an unoccupied middle seat on its flights. It makes sense from the perspective of a low-cost airline with tight margins, which is going to be struggling to make money as it allows fewer passengers on its planes—but it also means charging people for essential social distancing, which is… hmm. Fortune

Scataphagos · May 5, 2020

"3 ft separation" between passengers going to make a diff to the spread of the virus?

SteveM · May 5, 2020

Scataphagos said:
"3 ft separation" between passengers going to make a diff to the spread of the virus?

It's like promising "we are going to have no-pee zone" in a public swimming pool.

Turveyd · May 5, 2020

They going to have to switch off the aircon aswell and crack open a window for some fresh air, it'll definately float around in an airplane and get to everyone like on all planes.

But it's okay, because it's not the plague and by the time they reopen this will all be over and they'd of realised not a really a big deal.

All sit there with oxygen mask entire trip ??

LanceJ · May 5, 2020

space suits for all

systematictrader · May 6, 2020

Turveyd said:
They going to have to switch off the aircon aswell and crack open a window for some fresh air, it'll definately float around in an airplane and get to everyone like on all planes.

But it's okay, because it's not the plague and by the time they reopen this will all be over and they'd of realised not a really a big deal.

All sit there with oxygen mask entire trip ??

Hahahaha oxygen mask
Good one

virtusa · May 6, 2020

Maybe fly with open roof. Virus will then quickly fly away and not spread in the plane.

Turveyd · May 6, 2020

virtusa said:
Maybe fly with open roof. Virus will then quickly fly away and not spread in the plane.

Strapped to the wings, bring your own safety goggles.

UK expect announcement, weekends are gone and all working 4 days on 4days off and 12hr shifts so only 1/2 the people in the office at once to keep social distancing.

Over a bad flu, stop the world I need to get off!!

maxinger · May 6, 2020

virtusa said:
Maybe fly with open roof. Virus will then quickly fly away and not spread in the plane.

then plane has to fly rather low.
definitely possible but not fuel efficient.

maxinger · May 6, 2020

time for airline authority to review seating arrangement.
seats ought to space out a little more to address virus and plus size people problems.
At least have some sort of partition / barrier between seats.

honestly it is quite a torture if plus size people sits beside me.
once this triple plus size man was sitting beside me, and he used two hands to eat.
his arm ate into my space & I could only use one hand to eat.

He occupied 1.3 seatsss. I occupied 0.7 seat !!!
and both of us paid the same price for the air ticket !!!