Monday, June 10, 2019

How long can you stay inside a cigar tube?


Qantas has ditched the idea of installing sleeping pods on its planned non-stop flight from Sydney to London and is instead designing something for the entirely opposite end of the energy spectrum - a gym.
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"It will be four classes. It will have a new business class, a new first class, and for the economy passengers and premium economy passengers, we're looking at what we're calling a fourth zone for people to stretch, to exercise, to hydrate on," [said Qantas CEO Alan Joyce].
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The airline is as confident as ever that it can turn the 21-hour flight into one that passengers enjoy. Feedback from those who have flown what is currently its longest flight, Perth to London, has been more positive than it had anticipated.
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In order for regulators to be satisfied with the working conditions on the 21-hour flight, there has to be a plan in place for how a pilots time and tiredness are managed.
The story doesn't mention facilities for showering or cleaning-up after using the gym. But then, everyone on airplanes these days is so clean and smells so fresh what's a couple of sweaty, unwashed gym-rats? And fussing, tantrum-inclined crying, whining children? That makes a 21-hour non-stop flight an enjoyable and memorable experience that will be fondly remembered for life.

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