Will airlines be forced to remove rows and middle seats in the future?
Apr 15, 2020 | 8:47 pm
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Apr 17, 2020 | 8:50 am
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Here's a question for everyone who takes everything "social distancing" as bible. Would you take a plane ride with someone who knowingly has it, but is 6 feet away? All of your slowing the spread and flattening the curve are all useful for the big picture. Be reasonable about your reality though.
Apr 17, 2020 | 8:38 pm
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The airline said the possible move was still under discussion. "Nothing is decided," the spokesperson said.
Apr 21, 2020 | 1:33 pm
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May 6, 2020 | 11:45 pm
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The premise of this thread is that someone read a post on some other website in which some person said that something might happen. It's just another post with no factual basis whatsoever.
Even if carriers do implement some form of distancing for a short period of time, there is no reason to remove seats in order to do that and then restore those seats when this is over. Moreover, as pointed out, these distancing efforts do not even meet minimum guidelines so are just a sop to make people feel better about flying when the real answer is that they should not fly at all.
Even if carriers do implement some form of distancing for a short period of time, there is no reason to remove seats in order to do that and then restore those seats when this is over. Moreover, as pointed out, these distancing efforts do not even meet minimum guidelines so are just a sop to make people feel better about flying when the real answer is that they should not fly at all.
May 6, 2020 | 11:49 pm
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Why would they want to prevent me from sitting next to my wife?
May 7, 2020 | 12:01 am
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The New York Times is a serious culprit here where they published a manipulated and patently false report, since promulgated across the world, that the common flu only kills less than 0.1 % of those who get it. They took the LOWEST reported death rate in the US from the flu (12,000 in the 2011-2012 flu season) and divided it by the HIGHEST reported flu infection rate (45,000,000 in the 2017-2018 flu season).
Estimates for this year are 39 million - 56 million illnesses, 24,000 - 62,000 flu deaths. At the low end for both, that's 0.0615%. At the high end for both, that's 1.1%. At the middle of the range for both, that's 0.09%. I'd say the New York Times numbers are quite reasonable, a lot better than your "five times" claim.
Reality is that the death rate from the common flu hovers between 0.9 and 1.2 % on a year to year basis (according to CDC data) which is approximately the same as SARS-COV-2.
Those who have taken these draconian military law measures will certainly say, 'look how many lives we saved.' But the reality is that they will have saved exactly zero lives. In the end, most of the people who would get SARS-COV-2 will still get it at some point in the next year or so. And those who will die form it will do so.
As MiamiAirport said, the misery index from these government actions (combined with public ignorance and media irresponsibility) already far outweighs the impact of SARS-COV-2.
May 7, 2020 | 8:16 pm
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In general, seats don't come out as singles. They're manufactured and fitted in pairs, triples, quadruples etc. To remove middle seats airlines would require manufacturers to start from scratch and design and qualify new individual seats which is not a short term project and unlikely to happen given what we currently know about Covid.