Panoramic video goggles seem impractical, logistics, wires, etc. If passengers are close to the screen (like with those standing seats, Nintendo 3D like screens can be used, without any colored glasses etc.

Weights & cooling of flat screens have come down enormously as processing power went up. Pushed by the R&D billions of the mobile industry..

Who wants to dismiss everything and compete with the current 60 year old cabin concepts?
http://www.pprune.org/tech-log/445308-ecr-20-200-seater-optimized-flights-700-nm.html

What if someone faints in standing position?

What if there’s lots of turbulence and people start feeling sick, and are vomiting into bags? Do they also have to stay in standing position? They couldn’t go to the toilet to be sick either, because the perfect Ryanair aircraft wouldn’t have any of those unnecessary devices, either.

Whether or not the information is true, the medical knowledge of trauma inflicted on the human body without seat restraints is very clear, and proven.

Why he should make such silly, and irresponsible statements supports my view that he has crossed the line between headline pumping and a degree of lunacy.

There are some very good things about Ryanair in terms of speed, price and network structure given the density of population in Europe, which merit recognition. Instead we get very insulting comments about customers, and factually insupportable ravings about what are essential and legally enforced regulations about seat belts.

Same for standing seats. He probably wants 200 passenegers/4crew aircraft and thinks the A321 and 737-900ER are to big and expensive.

A320 and 738 can fit 200 (with additional off the shelf exits) with “standing” seats.

http://www.travelandleisure.com/images/media/0000/2518/2010009-b-skyrider-1.jpg

Airbus and Boeing are hesitating and O’Leary keeps on building pressure.

If Airbus responds to the 200 seater demand (also Easyjet, AF, Jetblue) with a A320.5 he is fine too.

He has nothing to loose and stays in the spotlights. He isn’t crazy at all…

… especially at the level of personal and vulgar insults aimed at his customers</

I can accept the carry-on baggage restrictions and the additional charges for absolutely everything in the interest of getting absolutely low-cost travel within many people’s reach. But the rudeness of their staff is what turns me off in the end. I put Easyjet in this category too.

He was recently seen at the headquarters of Chinese aircraft manufacturer Comac, inspecting the construction of the C919 airliner. No doubt he asked them to produce a model with standing room only and large escape doors. Or maybe he just visited Comac for the purpose of scaring Boeing and Airbus.

Consumers have become accustomed to visiting the Ryanair site and those of its low fare and legacy competitors as applicable.

If Ryanair doesn’t win on price, and as many reporters have found, this happens quite frequently, it may still win on time saved, which is what has given it the depth of adding business travellers to its original offerings to bargain hunters.

There is also the matter of airport access. It is true many Ryanair airports seem to be inconvenient, yet they are also Europe being Europe, within an hour or so of millions, sometimes tens of millions of potential customers for whom the so called central city airports are hours away.

We have a Ryanair which has a much richer and more complex market catchment than had been previously recognised. Which is why AF in particular is developing a set of low fare brands to serve similar sectors without appearing to dignify the Ryanair impertinence in serving customers for whom its hubs are in fact very inconvenient.

O’Leary’s stunts are just a distraction in this new marketing context. I wonder as to the extent to which his antics are an attempt to keep himself relevant, as well as irritating, to the public interest.