The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and Bunks

Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by asn0 on Thursday August 30, 2018 @08:25PM (#17881997)

This would be a cool place to try short-term "seat-swapping" rentals, a real "AirBnB" (ba-da-ching) as it were:

You buy a super-expensive bed-cube on a 20-hour flight, then register your flight and seat and mark a schedule when it's available for seat-swapping. "Guests" can book in 15-minute increments (on-demand if the flight has Internet). During their time, you swap seats and get to know their seat-neighbors.

Assuming an hour on each end for take-off/landing, and 8 hours you'd reserve for sleeping, that leaves 10 hours at $20/15-min = $800 recouped.

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by ObsoleteNerd on Thursday August 30, 2018 @09:04PM (#17882148)

Except the Business Class seats flying international cost $10k+ in many cases (from what I hear online, I can barely afford to fly cattle class once every 5 years). I don't think someone that spends that much is willing to give up their seat for a majority of the flight for $800?

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Re:The 20-Hour Flight Is Coming, and It May Have a Gym and B... by annerajb on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:49PM (#17889487)

He said in 15 minutes increment how is that the majority of a 18h flight? I believe the purpose is to stretch and for the other person to save a bit of money. So you may book it a few times during the 18h flight maybe every 4 hours for 30 minutes and pay for that.

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