"Among the features proposed for the future aircraft are six restaurants, three duty free shops, a lounge with a discothèque, two full sized movie theatres, a 14 lane bowling alley, a swimming pool with water slides, a wedding chapel, a fully functional medical clinic, and a 11,000 volume library."
But what you'll actually get is 7 floors of coach seats jammed in a closely as possible so as to maximize passenger load. Remember the 747 "Sky lounge"? Anyone actually ever seen one on a commercial airliner in the real world?
Yes. in 1974.
The really cheap seats will be in steerage. They are housed within the Empannage and have no window seats. There are no other amenities. Carry on is limited to 4 liters of water and two sandwiches.
I do. But I was only about 8 or 9 years old. My father was a pilot for American and we flew on one of the first ones. It was cool. Big buffet in the front of the lower section.
Then they deregulated the airlines for the unwashed masses. Goodbye skylounges.
Actually virgin atlantic they have a freestanding bar. I remember fly an American Air 747 cross country and having a buffet.