Want to fly standing up? That's what Airbus is pitching. Flying standing up.

For real.

In the future if you want a cheaper ticket you may be able to choose to fly standing up, something that will save the airlines money by allowing more passengers to be loaded onto a plane.

I like to take things to logical extremes. Already I have to remove my belt and take off my shoes. I’m no nudist and if you saw me you’d understand why. But think about it: The TSA could get you right through airport security if everyone flew nude? And think of the money you’d save! How elegantly efficient.

Maybe even better is you could fly as baggage. They put you in a box (looks like a coffin), give you a knockout drug to last about as long as your flight plus stops. Then they could stack you on a pallet and you fly parcel post to your destination. This would be particularly effective on very long overseas flights. You’d have to wear adult pampers of course. But think how cost effective it would be. If they made the container large enough you could have your carry-on luggage fly with you. You would be run through the scanner for bombs right at the check in. No TSA groping (none you would be aware of anyway).

Or, maybe you could fly racked up. I figure if everyone lay down on a rack separated by perhaps 2 feet, like in a submarine bunk area, you could triple or quadruple stack folks right to the ceiling of the airliner.

Really getting efficient now, aren’t we?