When the standard airline cabin was designed (the 707 in the early 1950s), flights were about 63% full. Now they're about 84% full. So the cabin you're flying in now has less than half as much empty space as its designers expected.
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Hey Paul. Where'd you find this info? Are you looking into airplane design?
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They designed for capacity though right? They’d have a design assuming load factor etc. I know there’s configurations to drive PRASM figures but I don’t think there’s a negative in the higher load
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