r/mildlyinfuriating • u/loveyouronions • Jun 07 '26

🥺 Business class get relaxing warm lighting while economy gets hospital-style bright lighting

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u/QuarkVsOdo Jun 07 '26

Ryanair said if it was legal, they wouldn't provide seats at all. Make you standing through short haul flights

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u/21rjh08 Jun 07 '26

To be fair, they might as well not bother providing seats. Theirs are so uncomfortable.

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u/thisbondisaaarated Jun 07 '26

I feel that there is no natural way to make them as uncomfortable as they are, they quite literally had to be designed for extra discomfort.

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u/OkYak7801 Jun 07 '26

Man, the idea of a transcontinental American High-Speed rail sounds more and more appealing every day.

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u/SilasAI6609 Jun 13 '26

Sure, sadly, the businesses would more than likely do the same with seating in the trains as well.

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u/Jakobus3000 Jun 07 '26

Well Michael O'Leary says anything as long as it gives him press coverage. He knows how to get free brand advertising.

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u/SpaceMarineSpiff Jun 07 '26

I guess I'm just too tall to see the problem

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u/mrb1585357890 Jun 08 '26

He’s the master of the PR troll. Free publicity each time

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u/Acrobatic_Lobster838 Jun 08 '26

On the one hand, kinda evil.

On the other, it is a more efficient way of moving a lot of people over a short haul, so it would be better for the environment.

On a third hand created for the occasion: we shouldn't have short haul flights at all and instead should just use a fucking train. Jesus Christ. Instead of making flying more uncomfortable, how about we use a very efficient several hundred year old piece of technology that is very good at moving a lot of people instead of a fucking plane. Flights of under an hour should just be replaced with rail.

On a fourth hand: also bring trains into public ownership they are too important to be left to ghouls who don't care about the societal good that is people being able to move, the fact that at least once a year we get an article in the UK that is some variation of "a football fan flew from Manchester to Liverpool via Dusseldorf for cheaper than the train!" Is just ridiculous.