Could it be worse than this? Of course it is possible.
Airlines have a difficult relationship with comfort.
They want customers to have it, as long as those customers pay more for it.
However, airlines have much higher priorities. These tend to involve making as much money as possible. This comes with the uncomfortable notion that customers can be constrained with less legroom on slimmer chairs than a politician might think.
Last week saw the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg. This is where the wise, the smart, and the never-fazed meet to see if they can find new, more profitable ways to get more people into the narrow tube.
One of the more moving ideas is to place the client in the overhead locker. More precisely, at the height of the overhead lockers, if they are still there.
This is a design for two-tier Economy class seating. It’s a lovely concept. If you sit in the top layer of seats, you can really feel like you are in the sky and recline in the fresh air without any threatening action from the person behind.
However, if you are in the lower class of seats, the view is not very good. Your face is at the bottom level of the person in front of (and above) you. This can have consequences in the form of a gas.
You’ll get more legroom, though, even if you might also have real trouble getting out of the middle seat. And what if the lower end seats were really cheap?
But is this really the worst seat idea at the Expo?
I am unreasonably grateful Flightradar24 Because post something that gives me a great pause and no nausea.
For this is another proposed Economy Class seat design. The chairs looked like they were bought at a craft fair. They look like they were originally intended as outdoor seating before the creators thought they had a better idea. Or, perhaps, too much fabric.
The whole thing looks fragile. There’s a built-in headrest, so clever that it looks like there’s no headrest at all.
You might immediately wonder what level of Beelzebub could put such seats in their planes.
It pains me to be sure that some airlines might think about that and claim that these seats are lighter, and therefore will result in less fuel burning. So good, let’s save the Earth.
But Flightradar24 suggestions these chairs are not so light, but can be very, very cheap.
Do you believe the manufacturers are actually taking steps to get these chairs officially certified?
You’re probably still saying to yourself, “That’s never going to happen.” But in the last few years, how often have you said it and found out soon enough that, oh, that just happened?
And no one was arrested for it.
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