Beam me up, Scotty!

The beds are all wrong. Need to be Mark IV Torpedos to provide fun and amusement to the inevitable rescue and recovery teams.

Grand_Moff_Joseph: ecx.images-amazon.com

Scarebus thread?

Scarebus thread.

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Subby is special

brantgoose: Welcome to deregulated Gilded Age conditions: 1st class and steerage. There is no decent medium

business class?

Queens
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Nymphomaniacs
Training
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Stewards

I don't know why people even look at stuff like this. It will never appear on any commercial airline. That stuff is for 1% not for the rest of you mugs that travel in coach.

You need this when flying to or from Australia.

/farkin' far flight

That looks nothing like the Picards Enterprise.

Maybe Archers NX-01, but only because that thing was a tin can.

It is amusing to me that the aesthetic quality of STTNG is pretty much being achieved in the . . . in the. . . wait, what the fark are we calling this decade? The last one was the 'oughts and the next will be the twenties (will they be roaring?), but what do we call this one? The teens? '12 isn't a teen yet. Annoying.

Anyway, with our touchpads, cell phones and VIP quarters, we are now achieving the style aesthetic of the scifi future vision from the 90s. In 20 years, STTNG will look dated, but because the (pre-teens?) co-opted the style to this hard-to-name decade.

Basically what I'm saying is my one-piece, big-titted jumpsuit is about ready to make a serious comeback.

brantgoose: Welcome to deregulated Gilded Age conditions: 1st class and stearage. There is no decent medium.

Of course back in the day (the 1970's) when the airlines were regulated, steerage was riding the bus like poor people damn well should.

brantgoose: stearage

my brain is full of fark

Two Questions:

1) How much WILL it cost, seriously - to fly first class on Qantas?

2) What's it like to fly that far on a commercial airliner, especially if you're not in first class??

Louis CK: Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy

jump to 2:00 for relevant rant. should be required watching for anyone biatching about flying.

Since Picard's Enterprise, the 1701-D, was first shown on television in 1987, I'd say this was all a little out of date.

Wake me when I can fly inside a holodeck. No, wait. That was 1987, too ;)

Huck And Molly Ziegler: Two Questions:

1) How much WILL it cost, seriously - to fly first class on Qantas?

2) What's it like to fly that far on a commercial airliner, especially if you're not in first class??

1) Between $3,500 and $4,500 USD

2) Somewhere around $550 for economy and $1500 for something called "Premium Economy"

But do they have tea, Earl Grey, hot?

brantgoose:
Of course a plane isn't ordinarily going to be as roomy as an intercity bus. For domestic trips, the amount of time aboard isn't usually as long as a ride on Greyhound or Megabus. The fairer comparison would be a commuter train, or even some manner of urban transit. I am a regular on the Chicago Transit Authority and don't find my ride in economy class any less comfortable than my ride out to Midway or O'Hare. From there, another two hours in similar conditions (but with better padding on the seats and a federal requirement of one employee supervising every fifty passengers) to get to Denver, for example, seems like a fair deal.

Devolving_Spud: Queens
And
Nymphomaniacs
Training
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Stewards

It's absolutely true, and they're the best sky waiters and waitresses in the air. Just ask Ralph Fiennes.

Australia's queens of the skies are a national icon

video man: Nothing worse than being stuck on a flight from LA to Sydney with seat that won't lean back and the lardo in front of you is fully reclined and bending the seat back further. Holy fark, there was about 4 inches separating my nose from the damned video display. And I had to sit like that. For farking 15 hours.

The food was nice, though. As was the Australian TV.

This is why fat people should not be allowed on planes

FTC:

"Rich white businessmen getting treated better than everyone else again. Nothing new there then? - mumsnetfeminist, manchester, 3/1/2012 15:52............You should work a bit harder all you need is the money you don't have to be white or even a businessman. The plantations in the deep south have been dismantled. You must be the last person still out there singing spirituals.That must seem a bit odd in Manchester. "

"Looks like the Enterprise." Mentioned four times.
"Touch-screen with 1000 movies." Mentioned five times.
Have to fly to/from Sydney. Mentioned twice.
Designed by Marc Newson. Mentioned three times.
Only 14 berths. Mentioned twice.

That's some great journalism, there.

747s used to have nice lounges and all types of other amenities for first class, but it didn't take long for all the airlines to realize "WTH are we doing?! That's space we could be cramming economy class travelers into and making them pay for every last little thing!" I doubt that kind of space and luxury will last long, especially considering the cost of a first-class flight from Australia to anywhere other than Tasmania.

Yeah what is it with them mentioning the 1000 videos thing over and over? I know the Daily Fail is read only by drooling, frightened, angry old people but even so...

This seems to impress them. Only a thousand?

This just in: Spoiled rich people get to enjoy something else you'll never have!

It's funny how people think all airlines treat people like US airlines do.

tallen702: I doubt that kind of space and luxury will last long,

On foreign airlines it will, Qantas, Virgin and plenty more. They realized long ago that cramming as many people as you can into one plane doesn't necessarily raise your profits any, though taking good care of your customers does a pretty good job of it.

blacksharpiemarker: Spoiled rich people get to enjoy something else you'll never have!

Look up some of the mock ups for Virgins A380s, the coach seating puts the business class seating of United Airlines, American Airlines and others to shame. Of course they won't take the lesson.

blacksharpiemarker: This just in: Spoiled rich people get to enjoy something else you'll never have!

You don't have to be rich.
But if you aren't, you do have to marry a stewardess.

/First Class rocks!
//as does my wife

What coach on an Airbus A380 Dreamliner may look like: