Airbus Patents POD to reduce boarding time!

[Ansett]

Have to say Cant see how this would reduce boarding times one still has to get inside and then it has to be maneuvered into position and secured.

Airbus proposes 'removable cabin pod' for planes to reduce boarding times

Imagine trying to Get PB to work lol

 

[moa999]

Won't reduce boarding times. Could increase airframe (and pilot) utilisation

 

[MEL_Traveller]

But... with a removable pod I suppose there could be room in the ceiling for a parachute (or three or four). Would possibly improve crash survival (for pax at least, maybe not for the pilots).

 

[RooFlyer]

Checks calendar.. not April 1? I'm surprised.

May reduce 'boarding' time but not make departure any more timely. Pod couldn't be manoeuvred up and in until last pax on and belted up and the safety briefing then given (and a longer one at that! .. "in the unlikely event of the pod getting dropped at either end ..."

KISS is worth entertaining, here.

 

[SeatBackForward]

I've thought about such before. Although I envisaged a pod more like that you see on the Thunderbirds.

It makes since sense. As dwell time is a major factor in considerations of transport systems.

Have everyone ready and seated for a shorter turn around of the "aircraft".

Railways will one day be similar where a pod will be waiting at the station then simply attached onto a passing "train".

But yes it's probably as realistic today as there thunderbirds are.

 

[codash1099]

There's a huge difference between a patent and a proposal!

 

[Happy Trails]

Thunderbird II had it 50 years ago.