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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Isn't it possible that the designers anticipated flight travel to increase? I've gotta believe these folks had foresight.
I'm sure they did, but they probably expected it to happen the way it had in the preceding decades: more planes, not more people per plane.
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Also, they probably didn't expect air travel would become affordable so quickly to reach that much capacity in the near future.
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How cool would it be to see the list of assumptions they were working with? They certainly didn't have the data we have now.
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And their expectations were right, till deregulation came along more than two decades later, and changed everything.
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This doesn't make sense, you design for extremes not averages.
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