h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

i came up with an idea to revolutionize the airlines. I call it nintendo air transit. it's based on a simple process.
In todays air travel, the airframe is all one structure: fuel, control, luggage and passenger compartments, engines, all blended and welded into one unit. What i propose is that airplane manufacturers seperate the passenger and luggage compartments from the rest of the plane, leaving fuel, cockpit, and engines in one frame and having the passenger an luggage compartments a seperate structure. The practical benefits of this lie in reduced turnaround time for flights: a module is sitting at the airport before the plane lands, and is getting filled with passengers, food, fresh flight attendants, and luggage while the plane is circling overhead. When the plane lands, all it has to do is be checked and refueled while the passenger/luggage modules are switched out. Since the most time-consuming part of the turnaround process is the unloading and reloading of passengers and luggage, if all this were accomplished at the airport ahead of time, it'd be much more efficient.

This idea wil be refined in the future, i just wanted it to be stored permanntly for safe keeping.

I think a similar plan was thought up by Architect/engineer/futurist R. Buckminster Fuller, although he combined it with a car...
It's still a good idea...