The much larger Kitty Hawk class was also built with this feature, albeit with two escalators, one forward and one aft, to accommodate its much larger size and expanded air wing. There are even some reports that a third escalator was also built into the Kitty Hawk initially to move high ranking officers from lower decks up to the ship's bridge. It remains unclear if the Forrestal class also had escalators, but it seems as if they did, at least for a period of time.

After the Kitty Hawk class, ready rooms were moved closer to the flight deck once again, and Enterprise and later the Nimitz class omitted the feature entirely.

One can only imagine how these escalators must have added to the drama for flight crews as they slowly rose their way through the escalator's dim tunnel to the flight deck before launching off into the night for air missions over Vietnam, or later on, over Iraq, Afghanistan and other dangerous locales.