Thanks for everyone's feedback - I love the banter on this. Clearly a lot of thought has been put into this. I will look into the LH thread to see if anything new pops up.
Originally Posted by
Plato90s
With a capsule design, you'd make everything a 2-deck - like the A380. Each deck would have 2-high capsules and the fuselage would have its longest cross section in the vertical axis - not horizontal.
As I read this comment, it made me think about LH's A330 (or was it 340) that has the Y lavs on the lower cargo level. Clearly they went for more seats in Y and places a boat load of lavs down there. As they do with crew bunks up top (like some 747s), why not take a little space forward on a lower level for bunks - in order not to gamble the whole plane on it. If it sells, they could roll bigger dice.
Again, thanks for the banter. Gives me more to think about.