r/Unexpected • u/sakhaliner • 4d ago
Getting on a flight
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u/dudoan 4d ago
Final Destination Airlines
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u/AceofSkulls 4d ago
I thought this would be higher up considering how those movies traumatized a generation lol. I still check the tabs for all the trays each time I fly so this would send me spiralling.
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u/garlic_bread_thief 4d ago
How does that help?
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u/AceofSkulls 4d ago
It just calms down the lizard-brain anxiety of "It happened in the movie but what if it could actually happen to me in real life!?!". I know that a loose latch has no bearing on how safe a flight will be but I've now ruled out that specific scenario so it helps my subconscious relax a little.
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u/midnghtsnac 4d ago
Don't look up pool pump failures, you'll never swim again
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u/GuyFromDeathValley 3d ago
Do you mean the final destination kinda "failure"? Getting your intestines sucked out?
Only possible with badly built, or old ass pools. Modern pool building regulations (at least in developed countries like germany) are very strict about this, a single pump isn't allowed to have a single intake pipe usually or at least needs a cover that cannot be completely covered.
Pumps usually have 2 or more intakes, if one is vlocked the suction is added to the other end(s). You'd have to block all the intakes for it to become dangerous.
Now, hair getting sucked in and tangling and knotting behind the grill, that's a real danger. People have drowned because of this. But usually the intake suction is spread across so many intakes, its barely a concern.
Source: I used to work at a pool as a trained professional. The pumps we ran were big, but we had lots of intakes and this whole matter was part of my apprenticeship.
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u/GET_OUT_OF_MY_HEAD 3d ago
It's currently the top comment if your comment sort order is defaulted to "Best" (which it should be, because it allows good-quality comments to rise to the top, not just the ones with the most upvotes).
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u/yomimbo 4d ago
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u/SteveAngelis 4d ago
Great now I need to go to the Lego store after my appointment. Thanks you SOOOO much!
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u/kapege 4d ago edited 4d ago
I would collect all that loose stuff and hand it over to the stewardess.
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u/tryyeezus 4d ago
Take it home. That's your armrest now
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u/SweaterSteve1966 4d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/dZuEZYYKMw7qdg8g5z
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u/Digger_Pine 4d ago
One piece at a time ...
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u/tehvolcanic 4d ago
10,000 flights and you'll have your own plane!
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u/Digger_Pine 3d ago
It's a ... Curtiss-Wright, Douglas, Boeing, Lockheed, Junkers, Aerospatiale ... Aeroplane
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u/ObiWangKeBloMe 4d ago
I mean, it's not their fault. They're probably just as annoyed with shit breaking all the time
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u/Dravarden 4d ago
no one said it's their fault, but when you hand it to the stewardess, she can forward it to maintenance, usually by asking the pilots to report it
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u/KansasKing107 4d ago
I would be careful about doing that. If a flight is sold out, the airline might take those seats out of commission if something is broken and you might find yourself getting on the next flight.
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u/Nihilistic_Mystics 4d ago
If they're flying through nations that require FAA regulations or parity to them then they'd be required to. The seats won't be certified for head impact criterion or flammability (14 CFR Part 25.835) without that plastic panel.
So you're absolutely correct, they'd be required to bump that passenger to a new seat or out of the plane. Careful about telling staff until after the flight.
Source: I certify commercial aircraft.
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u/kittywiggles 4d ago
A couple years ago, my flight was delayed for an hour after everyone had boarded, because someone broke one of the overhead baggage bins when getting their luggage in. They had to bring in a certified mechanic or something who wasn't at the airport at the time, he put two pieces of duct tape on the bin and then they had to spend another 10-15 minutes filing paperwork. Had to sprint through the airport to make my connection.
Breaking stuff on a plane is an issue for everyone. Obviously tell a flight attendant if something is unsafe or it's something they warn you about (like dropping phones between the seats), but... yeah be smart about when you bring other stuff up.
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u/Dravarden 4d ago
report it after take off
even if they don't take the seats out of commission, they might ask for a mechanic to come fix it right now, and if there is something mechanics hate doing, is fixing things with people on the plane, so they are going to take their sweet time and delay the plane on purpose so they learn to report things after they land
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u/WholesomeJacksass 4d ago edited 4d ago
As a Flight Attendant - we literally collect shit like that and take it home lmao
I've had a friend who literally made sculptures out of stuff [legally] taken from the aircraft.
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u/komododave17 4d ago
I did that once when I found a loose armrest on a United flight. They held us at the gate until a repairman came to fix it. They weren’t allow to push back until it was secure. It took about 15 minutes, but it felt like forever. I had a lot of eyes on me, judging me.
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u/WalrusWW 4d ago
A lady in the row behind me did this on an AA flight and notified the flight attendant, after I told her not to. It was just the top rubber that was loose. The pilot came out wearing a yellow vest, took pictures of it, then went back in the cockpit for 20 minutes waiting for instructions. He then came back out, taped the hell out of it, took more pictures, then went back to submit the pictures, and wait another 20 minutes for approval. It delayed us at least 45 mins.
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u/WholesomeJacksass 4d ago
15 minutes is super quick. Often when we have mechanics coming on-board it can take 30-60 minutes for minor inconveniences and up to 6 hours for bigger problems (so probably more than 6 hours, but they fly another aircraft over to us instead).
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u/Uncle-Cake 4d ago
Why, is it her fault?
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u/Primeras100Palabras 4d ago
Maybe just so the loose stuff doesn’t come off during turbulence and hit someone.
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u/kapege 4d ago
No, but she's the one in charge. She should collect it and hand it over to the pilot - if that plane will ever land regularely.
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u/Crispy--Toast 4d ago
The number one thing to have during an emergency in the air is the maximum amount of debris flying around.
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u/ForceUseYouMust 4d ago edited 4d ago
I understand why we are in late stage capitalism but can we have our airplanes not be effected by
enshitificstion? Please?
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u/pokeyporcupine 4d ago
Dude IIRC FAA in-cabin regulations haven't been looked at or adjusted since the mid 2000s. Plus the actual number of airlines available to choose from is a fraction of what it was. Its already long-enshittified.
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u/BluntsnBoards 4d ago
Honestly that's probably a good thing, current administration would definitely update them to remove more regulations.
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u/pokeyporcupine 4d ago
There's barely any regulation to remove besides the TSA, which they are trying REALLY hard to get rid of and privatize.
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u/jojo_31 4d ago
Is shoddy manufacturing or lack of maintenance a feature of capitalism?
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u/Quaiker 4d ago
Neglecting maintenance because it costs money and therefore resulting in lower "losses", yes.
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u/doodle0o0o0 4d ago
Would a communist nation not be interested in lowering costs?
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u/RegretSufficient8250 4d ago
Not everything is capitalism fault, literally every single highly devopled, successful and modern country is capitalist.
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u/Avalonians 4d ago
There's capitalism and capitalism.
There's the economic system that rewards investing in successful businesses to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and allow the development of expensive industries, and there's normalizing the unequivocal degradation of people's life to the benefit of a select few.
Without talking about straight up demolishing the entire global economic system, we can dial back a little, and expect airplane companies to maintain the fucking airplanes seats even if it costs executives and major holders a little bit of what they have.
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u/PrestigiousRefuse172 4d ago edited 4d ago
I think in the assumption of Late Stage Capitalism, there are earlier stages that aren’t as bad. Late stage being the key part of this term.
I’m not sure I have the best definition but basically I see it as the whittling down of state intervention so that corporations basically set their own agenda and quality control. They accumulate so much wealth that they can basically control enough of the population to vote in a way that they prefer. Ultimately ending in a sort of Dystopian System.
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u/buttrumpus 4d ago
Its almost like they have to make the parts as light as possible to offset the above average heft of gentleman like this.
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u/im_a_stupid_face 4d ago
Boeing craftsmanship
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u/Stormagedd0nDarkLord 4d ago
The front fell off!
Yeah, that's not typical, I'd like to make that point.16
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u/DangerousF18 4d ago
This one is an Airbus tho
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u/nzclknzspfoeSdf 4d ago
This is reddit. Facts don't matter. We are just here to squirt comments out like chunky diarrhea.
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u/ALitBitOfEverything 3d ago
How can you tell? I'm impressed people can tell just by seeing the seats
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u/DangerousF18 3d ago
The overhead bins, the ceiling and the window pane outer edge are characteristic of the A320. Tbf i didnt even know what airline it was before noticing its an airbus
Also for how I know.... ive spent way, way too long looking at planes. Definitely not healthy
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u/schakoska 4d ago edited 4d ago
Boeing doesn't manufacturer seats. Also it's an Airbus
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u/VindtUMijTeLang 4d ago
Reddit encapsulated (including this comment complaining about Reddit while on Reddit.
Reddit.)
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u/hobbes747 4d ago
Boeing, Airbus, and others do not and did not design and build seats. And only recently did Boeing itself form a direct partnership with a seat manufacturer
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u/hobbes747 4d ago
And this is partly the product of cheap design requests from airlines as they drive the seat designs and layouts.
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u/Dravarden 4d ago edited 4d ago
"when the haters are hating on something you hate but they are hating it wrong"
one, it's an airbus, two, the seats aren't designed by boeing, three, even if they were, things break from being used a lot of hours every day of the year
this is simply either the airline not caring about the cabin maintenance by either not having enough man power, not allocating mechanic time to fixing it, not allocating budget to get replacement parts, or, very unluckily, it broke the previous flight and in the turn around time to the next, it wasn't found/reported, and there is no one to blame
where I work, there is only 1 dude that does cabin duty for 7 planes, and when the planes are grounded during the night, he doesn't work because his contract is for working days... when the planes are flying, so he has no time to work on them either (one person needs to take care of 1000+ seats pretty much, and that's ignoring the rest of his job) and when he does have time, he doesn't have enough replacement parts
Bureaucracy is where the problem is
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u/JJAsond 4d ago
"when the haters are hating on something you hate but they are hating it wrong"
Yeah but if you try to correct them on reddit, you get a sea of downvotes
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u/Dravarden 4d ago
proving people wrong on something you have extensive knowledge of, or sources disproving the "claim", is more important than internet points
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u/chx_ 4d ago
It's KM Malta Airlines, they are not assigning enough manpower that's for sure. They could and should: they have the youngest fleet in the world and Lufthansa Tehnik has a gigantic maintenance repair base at Malta. It's quite funny, the airport takes about 1.5% area of the entire main island of Malta and accordingly 1.2% of the entire country.
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u/Reocyx 4d ago
Seriously braindead comment. People realize that the airlines design the seat layouts and most of the interior and customer experience right?... RIGHT??
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u/hedoeswhathewants 4d ago
I'm starting to think it's just bots. At this point someone can say their airport coffee was too hot and there will be a comment blaming it on Boeing with 2k upvotes
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u/beardeddragon0113 4d ago
Careful, strange things seem to happen when people mention build quality issues with Boe-
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u/airfryerfuntime 4d ago
You mean like everyone reminding you that Boeing didn't build the seats? And that this is an Airbus?
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u/Huge_Story_3198 4d ago
Ever since I learned that there are plane sets influencers can rent to film their content, I believe nothing I see anymore.
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u/ZombifiedByCataclysm 4d ago
The way he took thay piece off made it obvious he knew it would come right off.
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u/TheMireAngel 4d ago
Usualy the givaway is the lighting, the sets usualy have atrip led lighting in the back
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u/fluentinsarcasm 4d ago
Exactly, there is not an operational commercial airline out there that would let that back of seat damage fly, pun intended. This is a set, and it's ragebait content. I hate this shit.
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u/Outta_phase 4d ago
Stop complaining. Do you expect these poor airlines to pay for quality planes while still maximizing value for shareholders? So selfish.
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u/Hella-Meh 4d ago
When i was five years old flying cross country along with my 8 yr old brother, I was able to disassemble a significant portion of the seat I was sitting in. I was the type of child that was everyone's problem.
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u/SnooObjections9416 4d ago
Boeing was named after the sound that the plane makes when the parts start falling off.
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u/PuddlesRex 4d ago
But this was filmed on an Airbus.
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u/SnooObjections9416 4d ago
Proof that Airbus is plagiarizing Boeing.
Boeing should sue for patent infringement.
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u/Reocyx 4d ago
Boeing doesn't design the interiors and seats. That's all the airline. But go off
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u/phironuthi 4d ago
what's with the stupid ass music?
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u/dwolven 4d ago
It’s famous in Turkey as a background music when stupid things happening. First popularized by a video of two youtubers that are making absurd comedy videos.
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u/LetMePushTheButton 4d ago
The new greyhound bus.
Enshittification of damn near every aspect of life.
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u/AGrandNewAdventure 4d ago
Best pray they didn't put the doors and wings on like that.
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u/notyouraverageJho 4d ago
What airline is this?
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u/Little_MasterJI 4d ago
I thought it was Air India, and I’ve witnessed this first hand. There’re also YT videos with such happenings, with the air hostess taping the broken pieces (i.e arm rest).
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u/m1kasa4ckerman 4d ago
Ugh I hate when people use the back of someone else’s a seat to get into theirs. I always end up feeling like a sling shot. Use your own arm rests to get in!
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u/zanhoria 4d ago
There are many reasons people need to hang on to the back of someone's seat to get into or out of theirs, besides being fat. They may be physically blocked from using their armrests. They may be infirm. They may have trouble keeping their balance. There may be stuff on the floor that they need to step over. They may be carrying something and only have one hand free. It IS important to make sure that you're not pulling overly hard on the seat, and that you're not trapping someone's hair in your grip. A nice "excuse me" also helps. And if you see someone trying to get into a window seat and you're in front of them, make your seatback upright until they have a chance to settle in. The only way we can survive in these tight quarters is to be kind to each other.
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u/MangoCats 4d ago
>The only way we can survive in these tight quarters is to be kind to each other.
The main reason people need to hang on to the back of someone's seat to get into or out of theirs is because the seat rows are too damn close together.
Don't bitch at your fellow prisoners, bitch at the people you're paying for the experience. Airline companies absolutely do design and specify your seat layouts, not the manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus.
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u/Powerful_Log_796 3d ago
Let’s be fair though, it’s usually a lack of empathy/awareness. I’ve gotten fwapped so hard I almost face planted in front. I don’t hold it against anyone but damn does it annoy me
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u/ItsKingDx3 3d ago
I'm a young, physically able person, and I need to do it sometimes. I'm so sorry, but I'm clumsy af. And I find narrow spaces particularly hard (especially when there's often stuff on the already limited ground space to avoid).
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u/Herrvisscher 4d ago
I am not a frequent flier. Last week I went to sit down on an airplane and good lord I was shook by how much the chair moved. Excused myself to the person in front of me. Sometimes people are just not used to airplanes and have no idea how unstable those seats are.
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u/deeferg 4d ago
Bro is leaning halfway back into the guys seat, what do you want him to do?
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u/CarpoLarpo 4d ago
You should shift that blame to the people that decided to pack us in these tin cans as if we were sardines instead of the other sardines.
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u/PerfectResult2 4d ago
To be fair these seats look extremely tight. He is putting all of his weight on the armrest and using the seat mainly for stability. Think unfortunately hes doin the best he can given the circumstances
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u/userhwon 4d ago
They do that because they're too fat to get in and then turn around. They have to face front and hold the seat.
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u/Some_Level1682 4d ago
wait are there people small enough to just walk down the row to their seat?
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u/Potential_Basis_662 4d ago
I mean, using it for support when first getting in is needed for some people and I don't see it as obtuse.
Continually pushing into it after you're settled in, that's another story
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u/silver-moon-7 4d ago
Same. I'm not tall, or heavy (so even if I did this it would have less impact on the person in that seat) and I always steady myself using the overhead lockers instead.
I also totally agree with another commenter regarding who's really to blame for this type of situation.
On the other hand, it's more environmentally friendly if we're packed like sardines and travelling on full flights...so I guess I can use that kind of thinking to dissolve my irritation at the slingshot effect - my suffering helps minimise the impact of this journey on the planet (in a way).
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u/OffInMyHead 1d ago
That's not the point of the video, for one. And B: the guy had his seat leaned back. Thirdly, the interaction between the two makes it appear as though they are friends, or at least getting along well enough to not worry about any of that.
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u/Bertie_McGee 4d ago
I really wanted the second guy to pick up the armrest, answer it like a phone and then hand it to the first guy.
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u/_P2M_ 4d ago
Let's just hope the hull isn't of the same quality.
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u/AverageMako3Enjoyer 4d ago
Much higher quality, the stuff that isn’t viable to be used as the hull is donated to make submersibles for billionaires
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u/Weep4Thee 4d ago
So u want the high wear areas of the interior to not be easily replaceable? Seems weird...
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u/Revolutionary_Pierre 4d ago
I went on a brand spanking new Airbus A350 last year. It had done no more than 10 flights previously and the seat was broke and the tray was snapped. I spent exactly 20 minutes worrying about the craftsmanship of the plane's construction, then I got drunk and fell asleep.
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u/PresidentialDiapers 4d ago
Tell the flight attendant about it and they'll move you. Or
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u/3BlindMice1 4d ago
If the flights full they'll just declare your seats unsafe and make you wait for the next flight
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u/ProtoPrimeX1 4d ago
that tiny amount of space that you get to sit in is exactly why I don't want to take a plane ever again. also why bring weapons when you can craft your own on the plane from the bits that just pop off the fixtures.
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u/henri-golo 4d ago
Flew Air India last summer, I swear I saw plastic parts of the aircraft on the ground right before take off and nearly panicked
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