How much would something like this cheapen flight tickets? you could fit a lot more people for a lot cheaper in the same footprint as much smaller capacity planes. the whole plane is wing, and the whole wing is passenger space for maximum capacity
of course, it would only make sense for extremely popular flight routes that could actually fill the plane. there would also be increased demand due to the low cost
imagine it had a similar size footprint to a 747. how much would it cost to go between los angeles and san francisco? $20?

You ever looked at the bill from a minor outpatient surgical procedure? The anesthesiology costs are a lot. And that's basically what you're doing here for hundreds of people who can't be individually attended to if something goes wrong.

It's cheaper to maintain survivable atmospheric conditions inside a big cylinder than individually deliver sanitary, reliable, safe, tolerably comfortable atmospheric conditions to someone's face x300 where nothing ever goes wrong or someone dies and sues the pants off everyone who ever touched the scheme.

This is because the aircraft is not actually "air tight", it's quite leaky, but you have basically unlimited (for air pressure purposes) power from the engines to fight those leaks so really all it needs is to be strong enough to not tear itself apart in flight, which you were going to make sure of anyway. It's a small step from "airplane that flies" to "airplane with air pressure inside". It's a huge step to "flying machine with 500 individual autonomous life support units that doesn't kill you"

>>2040979
its not anesthetic lmao there is no need for an expert to perfectly dose medicine that can kill you needing to account for weight and monitoring your stats and everything needs to be absolutely perfect with everything accounted for else the patient dies
the problem is mostly that having thousands of people packed in like its the trans atlantic slave trade is going to get humid and stinky. i'd rather breath my own air and not share.

>>2040982
So are you going to give everyone liquid xanax or how are you dealing with the behavioral aspect? You can't even get people to consent to going into an MRI machine for 45 minutes, this is what, 5-10x that?

>>2040984
??? its their own choice if they wanna buy the ticket. if some retard wants to go in while claustrophobic thats their own problem
this wouldnt replace traditional airliners, it'd be the taco bell alternative

>>2040986
Most people wouldn't even do it if you paid them what the normal plane ticket would cost.

>>2040977 (OP)
Isn't this just a flying slave ship?

>how much would it cost to go between los angeles and san francisco? $20?

It would still cost the maximum amount people are able to pay and pretty soon prices would be the same as now.
But it would sure make some airline executive a couple billion richer (which wouldn't change their lifestyle in the slightest).

Tbh if an airline made me unconscious so I could be loaded like cargo that would be preferable to normal air travel

>>2040984
Anon, OP is trying to come up with inhumane techno dystopian futures here, the fact that flying in one of these slave planes would be a horrifying experience is the point, he's trying to imagine the most fucked up but still technically possible scenarios, perhaps in the future people will be desensitized enough to the horrors that surround them that flying in one of these things wouldn't be a big deal at all.

>>2042463
I would question the usefulness of coming up with deranged dystopian scenarios to get mad at