A340 lower deck
Apr 5, 2010 | 3:40 pm
#16
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: on the Llano Estacado
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Apr 5, 2010 | 4:42 pm
#18
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Australia
Programs: NZ Elite
Posts: 6,518
The lower deck crew rest modules also lead to those marvellous "missing seats" in Y (..well... marvellous if you get the extra legroom so created...
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..as the escape hatch from the module has to come up somewhere!
)..as the escape hatch from the module has to come up somewhere!
Apr 6, 2010 | 9:22 am
#21
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: SEA
Programs: UAL Million Miler / 500k Delta now...
Posts: 51
Yup was on an A340 FRA-DEN flight on Lufthansa where they had these...
Apr 6, 2010 | 9:48 am
#22
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Central Texas
Programs: Many, slipping beneath the horizon
Posts: 9,859
Vaguely, and it's been too many years, I recall some lower deck facilities/acommodations in the old Boeing Stratocruiser (military C-97), recognizable for its "Double Bubble" fuselage, and kept around in modernized form - upper fuselage swollen) for decades as "Guppies" and "Super Guppies" in freighter service for oversized loads.
Apr 6, 2010 | 12:33 pm
#23
Join Date: May 2009
Location: AMS
Posts: 2,571
* It doesn't need food
* It doesn't need to be cleaned-up after
* It doesn't need seats
* It doesn't need cabin heating
* It doesn't care about the IFE (or lack thereof)
* It doesn't complain about legroom
* It doesn't need toilets
* It doesn't ask the FAs for more drinks
* It doesn't care if it's a few hours late (most of the time)
etc.
KL, in fact, has 747s that are partly for people and then they've decided that using the back of the passenger deck for cargo is more profitable than fitting a couple dozen people in there.
Apr 6, 2010 | 8:00 pm
#25
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Orlando, FL, US
Programs: DL-Dirt Medallion;US-Cast Iron Preferred
Posts: 3,617
I believe that, in order for the a/c to be certified to carry pax in seats on a lower deck that can be occupied for t/o and landing, the framing of the aircraft would have to be reinforced so that it could withstand a belly landing without crushing the pax sitting on the lower deck.
Apr 7, 2010 | 12:00 am
#26
Join Date: Dec 2007
Programs: Enough to travel better
Posts: 2,023
I recall reading somewhere that back in the day, UA sometimes flew Boeing 377 Stratocruisers between LAX and SFO as turnaround flights to/from Hawaii. UA would sell seats in the lower deck lounge of the 377, which had banquette seating equipped with seat belts and the nearby bar in the lounge.
