There is no need to build longer runways, although airports have had to spend heavily to make space for the plane's wingspan at departure and arrival gates which must also be modified to allow upper-deck passengers on and off.
Passengers slept on deck or in other public areas and used buckets, bags, showers and sinks to relieve themselves of waste, the suit said.
Most passengers languish on deck as the Tucker T cuts through the sheltered sea of the Bay, keeping their eyes peeled for the dolphins and penguins that occasionally surface alongside like bobbing corks.
With a capacity of 4, 000 passengers, the 18-deck vessel is the biggest cruise ship to homeport year-round in Manhattan.
Tilley said her sister, Renee Shanar, of Houston, told her the cabins were hot and smelled like smoke from the engine fire, forcing passengers to stay on the deck.
Its roof ripped off, passengers can be seen standing on the top deck, waiting to get off.
Passengers passed the hours playing cards, walking the deck and going to see what was happening on other areas of the ship, Poret said.
On the deck the crew of the R Tucker Thompson are helping other passengers into safety harnesses, so they too can fulfil the childhood fantasy of climbing the rigging.
The originals and true replicas sport minimal accoutrements above deck, a wheel that stands alone near the stern like a stranded preacher's lectern and no rails or lifelines to catch passengers who lose their footing on a steeply slanting deck.
Passengers dragged their mattresses onto the ship's open deck to stay cool and get away from the nasty smells inside.
Less populist, Tim Clark, president of Emirates, which has ordered 45 planes to fulfil its ambitions of establishing Dubai as a new global hub, says that business and first-class passengers will enter through separate doors to an exclusive upper deck.
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And when I wandered up to the deck at night, it was easy to imagine how frightened the passengers on board the Costa Concordia would have been when the boat first hit ground and then started to tip over in the dark.
Deputy Gollop, who is also the States' disability champion, said double-decker buses would make it easier for some disabled passengers to travel because they offered more room on the lower deck for wheelchairs.
While the crew on the flight deck were frantically trying to figure out the cause of this freak failure, many passengers were largely unaware that anything was wrong.
Passengers who had been standing, waiting to disembark, were hurled to the deck or launched into walls as the Seastreak hit the dock.
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