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Insane idea: Load people like cargo.

Seriously. Just have the whole passenger section setup like cargo pallets and wheel them in and out of the plane. Why bother walking up and down a narrow aisle? Just have a "passenger marshalling facility" away from the airport, have the interior section in parts there, have everyone comfortably load up, put that on a bus, wheel that straight to the plane, then load them in like large scale cargo through a huge side door.

Lock them down and send them wherever. Do the same in reverse at the destination.



I’m reminded of Eero Saarinen’s “mobile lounges” at Washington’s Dulles Airport

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dulles-airport-mobile-lo...


Each one has to be a pressure vessel, so either we have a bunch more pressure doors on the plane, or each one has its own toilet, galley and staff. Sounds expensive.


One giant pressure door vs several small ones. The sacrifice, and why this wouldn't work all that well, is evacuation.


Just realized a plane already has a few extra pressure doors I'd forgotten about for emergency exit.

And yes, evacuation issues kill the idea.




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