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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2 things: 1) flying was a LOT more expensive, load factors are a part of why it’s cheaper. 2) the 707 was the first successful jet; the designers had no idea what load factors would be... at the time they designed it the dominant commercial plane was the dc-3 with ~30 seats
Yes, I know load factors increased with deregulation. The 707 was not competing with the DC-3. More like the Lockheed Constellation.
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Yeah true, the 707 (and DC-8) wiped out the constellation, but the dc-3 was still dominant at the time... 16k dc-3’s were built, only <1k constellations (and I think half of those were military)
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