Airlines in a Crisis

We are now a year into the pandemic and its time to better organise the loading of freight into the cabins of passenger aircraft. There needs to be developed a container that can get in through the passenger door, or the emergency exit door opposite. Preferably in a bit less than 1/2 cabin width size, leaving space for passage down the middle. After all every airport have the equipment to load such containers, daily in use to load the wheeled carts that contains food, drink and duty free to be consumed and sold onboard. In practice they could be seen as small containers. One could also do with a track system that would be fastened to the mounting points normally used for seats, to easily move around and lock in place the cargo.  Maximum weight would be 5 passengers at 70kg each plus the weight of the seat lets say 50 kg wich give a maximum weight for each container of 400 kg. for a 3+4+3 seat width plane and 2 container wide. sample a 787 or A330. That should leave at least 350 kg for

If smaller single aisle planes are introduced on longer and longer routes post CoVid19, due to preferences for maintaining frequencies even with reduced demand, somebody better convert some more widebodies to dedicated cargo planes pronto.It is not all about passengers and departure conveniency. Containerized or palletized airfreight at scale in a narrow would be a stuffing and  handling nightmare. Of course Amazon is developing a fleet of Prime marked 737 NG dedicated freighters, so we will not totally depend on continued production of widebodies when the current stock of ex passenger aircraft to convert runs out.  However it is not only about the transatlantic Europe to New York market. Other flights are much longer and beyond the reach of even the Aibus 321 XLR.