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VivaColombia is hoping the move will drive down fares to open air travel to working class Colombians and budget holidaymakers by allowing more people to be squeezed onto each flight.
The no-frills carrier annouced that it is adding 50 more Airbus 320s to its fleet to capitalise on the nation's growing tourist market.
VivaColombia’s founder and CEO William Shaw told the Miami Herald the airline was looking into vertical travel options.
“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,” he said.
"Who cares if you don’t have an inflight entertainment system for a one-hour flight? Who cares that there aren’t marble floors… or that you don’t get free peanuts?”
At the time boss Michael O'Leary described the standing seats as "bar stools with seatbelts" and questioned whether seatbelts were even needed.
He compared planes to buses at the time.
"If there ever was a crash on an aircraft, God forbid, a seatbelt won’t save you. You don't need a seatbelt on the London Underground. You don't need a seatbelt on trains which are travelling at 120mph.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3622791...ay-remove-all-seats-to-make-passengers-stand/
This would be a terrible idea. I could imagine it being like the mass transit here and everyone squeezing in worse than any max ride.
I'm flying with this airline on Thursday and it's cheap but for some colombians it isn't. They make you pay for everything from choosing the seat to checking in at the airport. But, the first time I flew with them I had a flight cancelled and they gave me a free round-trip flight. I only had to wait a few hours more for the next flight.
No flight in Colombia is more than 1 hour. My flight Thursday is only 30 min by plane but 8 hours by bus so it would be more practical for colombians to be able to take planes more often.
But it would give a good reason to squeeze up with a nice Colombian lol
The no-frills carrier annouced that it is adding 50 more Airbus 320s to its fleet to capitalise on the nation's growing tourist market.
VivaColombia’s founder and CEO William Shaw told the Miami Herald the airline was looking into vertical travel options.
“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,” he said.
"Who cares if you don’t have an inflight entertainment system for a one-hour flight? Who cares that there aren’t marble floors… or that you don’t get free peanuts?”
At the time boss Michael O'Leary described the standing seats as "bar stools with seatbelts" and questioned whether seatbelts were even needed.
He compared planes to buses at the time.
"If there ever was a crash on an aircraft, God forbid, a seatbelt won’t save you. You don't need a seatbelt on the London Underground. You don't need a seatbelt on trains which are travelling at 120mph.”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/3622791...ay-remove-all-seats-to-make-passengers-stand/
This would be a terrible idea. I could imagine it being like the mass transit here and everyone squeezing in worse than any max ride.
I'm flying with this airline on Thursday and it's cheap but for some colombians it isn't. They make you pay for everything from choosing the seat to checking in at the airport. But, the first time I flew with them I had a flight cancelled and they gave me a free round-trip flight. I only had to wait a few hours more for the next flight.
No flight in Colombia is more than 1 hour. My flight Thursday is only 30 min by plane but 8 hours by bus so it would be more practical for colombians to be able to take planes more often.
But it would give a good reason to squeeze up with a nice Colombian lol
