With the aim of making boarding easier and faster, Airbus has patented an interesting and revolutionary cabin module that can be detached from the plane.
Currently, the boarding process involves making people wait for the aircraft to arrive. Once the plane does make it to the airport, another couple of minutes is spent before the air transport finally gets ready to depart. Once the airplane is ready for boarding, people line up, go through final security checkpoints before they are allowed to move towards their assigned seats. Furthermore, the line tends to get crowded as people stow their carry-on luggage. This is how getting on the airplane is currently done which can be tedious, ineffective and time-consuming.
With the help of this new cabin technology, passengers will be asked to take a seat in the detachable modules while waiting for the plane. Once the aircraft arrives, the passengers will no longer be asked to leave their seats. Instead, the removable module will be transported to the aircraft possibly using a lift. This cuts time significantly since it eliminated the steps where the travelers line up to board the plane, go through security and secure their belongings.
"Passengers could be pre-seated in cabin pods before the airplane actually arrives, ready for integration on the aircraft, saving time and making processing much simpler," Airbus said with regards to their ingenious patent.
The patented modules will only have the following - floor, upper fuselage, and end walls. It's expected to have no roof because this facilitates easier transport and it will be placed inside the aircraft anyway. This process can be better visualized by comparing it to putting shipping containers to a large ship.
Inevitably, this leaves more questions than answering the concern it was originally designed for. How will an airplane that has a detachable fuselage fly? Will it be safe? Would there be a need to completely change airport terminals to accommodate this interesting style?
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