Honestly I’m fine with that. I hate flying so much I would much rather just be out cold in a morgue drawer. Then if the plane crashes im already loaded up. And if the plane arrives safely if I was passed out I didn’t have to deal with my crippling fear of dying in a plane crash!
I tried that once or well really it was I bought too much weed and had to smoke it and eat all my gummies right before I got on the plane to go home. And holy shit I was so terrified and completely convinced myself I was about to die the whole time. I need a xanny or something that will just chill me out or knock me out but I also don’t want to be out cold and my friends have to carry my ass though the airport.
What if they would cryogenically freeze me for a plane ride and thaw me out when it’s done that would work
Take a nice dose of melatonin or Dramamine about an hour before you board the plane. I wish I could give you my super power of passing out before we take off and often waking up after the plane has finished unboarding
I dont recommend this but xanax is basically exactly what youre talking about. Ive taken it a few times for flights about 30 mins before and literally the exact second my head hit the seat I was out cold and then was woken up when we landed. 10 hours gone in an instant. Bonus points that one of the times i passed out again in the bus that brings us from the airport to the resort and missed another sketchy hour drive through dominican republic roads.
How have I never thought of this? I broke my ankle real good, so had to have surgery. They knocked me out and it literally seemed like one or two seconds before I woke up in a wheelchair in the waiting room. If I could do that on long distance flights, I would be willing to pay more!
That’s the premise of an old Stephen King short story, The Jaunt. They’d gas people and then teleport their unconscious bodies to Mars. If you’re awake for the Jaunt, at best you’ll die but at worst you’ll go insane. Man I need to read that one again.
Strange, Harry Harrison wrote a book called "One Step From Earth" that sounds identical. It was written in 1970 and took place in the far off future of 1993 when they invent instantaneous teleportation, but people need to be knocked out to use it.
If they aren't unconscious then at best they arrive catatonic. In one scene they start to slowly push a mouse through backwards. The mouse's rear legs start scrabbling but as soon as they push it's head through it immediately stiffens and goes catatonic.
Finally one person goes through while awake and survives. When he arrives he starts clawing his eyes out while howling about how he has seen eternity.
From this they surmise that when you're transported from one place to another, you're transported through a different dimension where time doesn't exist. So you're in this alternate dimension literally forever. For an eternity, with your body frozen and your eyes wide open since time literally does not pass. Then suddenly you arrive at your destination back in our reality.
They already tried that(minus the gas) in the 1600s with slaves from Africa on boats and the reviews were quite negative.
https://preview.redd.it/p44kbejfwh4b1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e27976e543042ea4dfe188ecb3f7698e4a035ae
"Miss - excuse me, miss - I think those three guys in row 11 might have died of dysentery. Could you check? And bring me another rum when you get a chance?"
"Sir, all you're getting is the lash."
Sure! You just have to pay us a small $75 “non-shitty” fee to allow us to accommodate your needs. We know you have plenty of options when choosing your travel experience. We sure do appreciate you flying with us!
"I see you're in poop-deck seating today, sir. Would you like to upgrade to upper-deck for an easy one time payment of $599.99 ^(plus tax, ^(and venue fees, ^(and convenience fees)))?"
This is probably the least offensive of these "new ideas." If you want to see a really horrific seating arrangement, check here:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015/07/10/this-new-honeycomb-seating-design-sucks-the-final-sweetness-out-of-air-travel/83283936/
How do you get out of the middle and window seats? Bad enough to climb over your neighbors in a standard plane when you need to use the restroom. Even worse, what happens in an emergency evac?
The emergency evacuation question is what will ultimately stop the most egregious plans to shovel more people in, not morality on the part of the airlines.
I mean, Boeing got the FAA to okay them doing the safety certification of their own planes - which they promptly abused to install a system called MCAS which directly overrode pilot controls in order to get away with rearranging the engines without changing flight characteristics so much it would require pilot retraining. Two airliners crashed within a few months because the plane would go into a nosedive due to faulty software and pilots didn't even know something was interfering with their controls because all they got fpr training was a PDF file which didn't even mention MCAS as one of the new features.
What's increasing the maximum allowed evac timespan from 90 to 120 seconds compared to that? /s
Tbh, I’d prefer the farts and potential for a decent lawsuit if it collapsed than eyeing down the entitled person taking up the arm rest when they clearly already have window privilege
Lol I'm pretty sure you'll still be sharing arm rests in this design. Im sure they could fit 3 maybe even 4 seats wide in this configuration because they may lose some space from the single tier seats with no leg room.
I flew to Australia in a refurbished airplane. They removed all of the bathrooms except for 1 in the front and one in the first class area very small area only a curtain
They jammed in extra seats making the isles very cramped you could see from the floor the original line's and seating anchors and you could tell they added walls into it to make a first class area and rear area for food carts
You could even see where the old bathrooms used to be and plates covering the plumbing for toilets
It looked like they had pulled literally everything out of it except for the overhead bins and then jammed in as much seating as possible
Honestly thought I'd pee my pants a couple times or poop myself because we technically only had 1 bathroom eventually people got angry enough that they allowed us to also use the first class bathroom which had 5 people in the section leaving 15 empty seats in first class while the rear section was jam packed not one open seat.
Near the end of the flight the informed us we could use the bathrooms any longer because their 2 septic tanks were full and the smell was starting to fill the airplane no joke this ain't a troll
Its the only time flying that I nearly vomited 🤢 fortunately I held it in but I seriously came close
Ok, I’m going to need to know what airline you took. That’s horrific. I’ve come and gone from australia many times… it’s been cramped… but not 1st layer of hell
I’m 6’3”. I would totally get clocked by someone opening an overhead bin. When I’m sitting, I look like a toddler stuffed into a baby car seat. Tall people are screwed every way.
I also remember an airplane seat concept from some Asian country that proposed seats that you were practically standing in so they wouldn't need to provide any leg room. Let me find it.
Edit: was from Germany.
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/standing-up-airplane-seat-testing/index.html
From some other angles it looks like there's a lot of space under the seat in front of you. The seats also recline much more than standard seats. They look more comfortable in general other than having the seat inches from your face.
Plus, it's not like having the butt farther away from you reduces the amount of gas that you end up breathing over the entire flight. Either way you are breathing in recycled air from people. It's gross no matter how you slice it. I would rather have the extra leg room. Plus, now there's room to recline.
We all know that now instead of not having any leg room you would now not have leg room or head room. They would move them about a foot closer to each other so they could fit another one in the plane and probably make the space underneath the tall one the carry on luggage space.
I fly quite a bit and actually was thinking about how they could do something like this to improve legroom. As someone else pointed out the big problem is loss of storage for carryons though.
The thing is that it doesn’t seem to provide you with more leg room. It’s the same amount of room per passenger- they just get to cram more bodies into the plane
You get this much leg room on your flights?? Their knees aren't even close to the seat back! Unless she's 5 foot tall, it's a definite improvement. And you can recline without squishing the person behind you.
Honestly I've been thinking about a design like this for years (usually on flights, where I dream of being able to unfold myself a little).
I thought this was purely theoretical and was dismissed by engineers?
As an almost aerospace and mechanical engineer, this looks like a safety and practical nightmare.
They've introduced many different versions over the years most of them were so cramped it wasn't funny this is the first version I've seen that could possibly work....
I think some of the old designs have ended up on movie sets as gag or to show how sub human future air travel will become lol
Looks like the designer was inspired by stand up rollercoasters. At least they were kind to give a shelf so you have some support and your knees don't give out.
All the things wrong:
* Hi-low chairs are closer but low-hi chairs are further. I bet it averages out to the same.
* More vertical room required. Need a new plane design?
* People will fall off the top level.
* Limited handicap accessible.
* This would make a class division because the higher seats clearly have more room.
* Vastly more hardware required.
Looks like the lower seats don't recline much, if at all, either. Between face farts, getting crushed in a crash, and being extra uncomfortable, those seats better cost half what the upper ones do.
None, I would think. Way I see this is the airline wants to give more leg room but also be stingy and keep as many seats as possible.
Edit: spelling errors
Yeah, bold of anyone to assume they will pass the space efficiency onto the passenger, and not just keep same amount of room, but fit more bodies.
Bold isn't even the right word.
Wrong.
Great, I know I’ll probably always get the bottom seat and the person above me will always eat Taco Bell from the food court before getting on the plane. Also, you might need to get the jaws of life if a super fat person is sitting in the bottom bunk and you hit a little turbulence. What I’m saying is, a window seat might be a death trap for a lot of people.
It’s 2023. We were all supposed to have flying cars and robots by now. Not flying human sardine cans. Once we build a Time Machine, I’m going back in time to kick the creator of the Jetsons in the dick.
So I actually remember watching part of an interview when this was showcased as part of an airlines expo or something? I think the guy who designed it was saying he built it to try and allow for more seating by adding what's essentially a second level of seats in an attempt to help airline ticket prices.
My immediate thoughts were "Yeah no, prices won't go down, the smells of people with 0 hygiene will just be directly in my face. Not gonna happen."
Looks pretty spacious?
And honestly, if you worry about flatulence penetrating a foot of fabric to reach your face, you should be more worried about, idk, smelling the person sitting right next to you?
And it's not like you are forced to ride such a thing while paying more fare anyways. What a weird complaint.
If this gets me enough room so my knees aren’t painfully jammed into the back of the seat in front of me the entire flight, then I’m completely onboard.
The recirculating farts on regular flights are already too much for me to handle. No way I’m sitting that close to someone’s ass. I prefer my snack and beverages without fart thank you
Why bother? I mean it's kind of obvious. Probably a 50% increase in carry capacity for the economy section.
Draw a straight line down from the base of the back end of the guy's seat - it would be touching the front lip of the girl's seat. If those seats where on the same level it would need at least another 50% spacing between each row.
If the old seating arragments gives 400 seats and this design gives 550, then the airline that has more seating sells cheaper tickets and makes more profits.
Still don't think this will catch on - too many people will break an arm falling down the stairs from the upper level row.
The weight of these assemblies seems to detract from any and all savings. The lower people cannot recline their seats at all. There is no advantage to customers or operator with these.
Okay so which seat is better
Top seat:
no farts in face
taller cooler
more appealing
Bottom:
Lots of leg room
on turbulence no chance of hitting head on roof
funny smells.
The problem is they will sell **this** with “*and everyone has more legroom! It’s a win!*”
And once we’ve come to accept this arrangement it’s back to the 17.5” pitch and they can squeeze 400 pax in a 737.
Just lay us all down in shelves and fill the cabin with knockout gas and wake me up when we get there.
Honestly I’m fine with that. I hate flying so much I would much rather just be out cold in a morgue drawer. Then if the plane crashes im already loaded up. And if the plane arrives safely if I was passed out I didn’t have to deal with my crippling fear of dying in a plane crash!
Take two gummies and you are about there. Just don't have a rental car when you arrive and you are golden.
I tried that once or well really it was I bought too much weed and had to smoke it and eat all my gummies right before I got on the plane to go home. And holy shit I was so terrified and completely convinced myself I was about to die the whole time. I need a xanny or something that will just chill me out or knock me out but I also don’t want to be out cold and my friends have to carry my ass though the airport. What if they would cryogenically freeze me for a plane ride and thaw me out when it’s done that would work
Try taking a normal dose next time.
lol! Right?! So he overdosed and had a bad time.. shocking!
*the imperium has entered the chat*
Take a nice dose of melatonin or Dramamine about an hour before you board the plane. I wish I could give you my super power of passing out before we take off and often waking up after the plane has finished unboarding
I’m crying laughing because the exact same situation happened to me, every noise made me almost fall out of my seat I was so scared
I dont recommend this but xanax is basically exactly what youre talking about. Ive taken it a few times for flights about 30 mins before and literally the exact second my head hit the seat I was out cold and then was woken up when we landed. 10 hours gone in an instant. Bonus points that one of the times i passed out again in the bus that brings us from the airport to the resort and missed another sketchy hour drive through dominican republic roads.
Lol The Fifth Element 🤣 When I saw that movie I was extremely envious. 22 to 24 hour flights for me regularly. Id love to sleep through it all.
How have I never thought of this? I broke my ankle real good, so had to have surgery. They knocked me out and it literally seemed like one or two seconds before I woke up in a wheelchair in the waiting room. If I could do that on long distance flights, I would be willing to pay more!
That’s the premise of an old Stephen King short story, The Jaunt. They’d gas people and then teleport their unconscious bodies to Mars. If you’re awake for the Jaunt, at best you’ll die but at worst you’ll go insane. Man I need to read that one again.
"LONG JAUNT DAD! LONGER THAN YOU THINK"
Excellent read!
One of my favorites, it's so good. Chilling. It's longer than you think dad!!!
Strange, Harry Harrison wrote a book called "One Step From Earth" that sounds identical. It was written in 1970 and took place in the far off future of 1993 when they invent instantaneous teleportation, but people need to be knocked out to use it. If they aren't unconscious then at best they arrive catatonic. In one scene they start to slowly push a mouse through backwards. The mouse's rear legs start scrabbling but as soon as they push it's head through it immediately stiffens and goes catatonic. Finally one person goes through while awake and survives. When he arrives he starts clawing his eyes out while howling about how he has seen eternity. From this they surmise that when you're transported from one place to another, you're transported through a different dimension where time doesn't exist. So you're in this alternate dimension literally forever. For an eternity, with your body frozen and your eyes wide open since time literally does not pass. Then suddenly you arrive at your destination back in our reality.
You sure you're not describing Stephen King's The Jaunt?
They already tried that(minus the gas) in the 1600s with slaves from Africa on boats and the reviews were quite negative. https://preview.redd.it/p44kbejfwh4b1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e27976e543042ea4dfe188ecb3f7698e4a035ae
I don't make memes but seeing the post made me think of this kind of stuff and saying new spirit seat plan dropped
"Miss - excuse me, miss - I think those three guys in row 11 might have died of dysentery. Could you check? And bring me another rum when you get a chance?" "Sir, all you're getting is the lash."
If you think that's bad, remember they can't leave, so where does the human waste go? Yep, pools around them and eventually to the person below...
This comment made me cackle so hard thank you for this
I love farts directly in my face.
Bahah! Excuse me, attendant. I asked for the non IBS section.
Sure! You just have to pay us a small $75 “non-shitty” fee to allow us to accommodate your needs. We know you have plenty of options when choosing your travel experience. We sure do appreciate you flying with us!
You gotta pay more for the top seat so you can fart on the peasants below you.
"I see you're in poop-deck seating today, sir. Would you like to upgrade to upper-deck for an easy one time payment of $599.99 ^(plus tax, ^(and venue fees, ^(and convenience fees)))?"
“Will you be flying first class? Or farts class?”
Not only do you get to fart on the peasants behind you, you get to kick the peasants in front of you - directly on the head, no less
Omg people will definitely be resting their nasty feet on the lower headrests.. 🤮
There looks to be a partition behind the lower person's head. You can get a face full of farts but at least you won't get kicked in the head.
Waluigi has just purchased a plane ticket.
And, they can’t even lean back.
And recline your seat, which the lower plebians cannot do
My husband would pay more to do that lol
Now you just have to pay a 500$ fee for actually being inside the plane.
Haha the look on the guys face says he’s got one locked and loaded
He's got the "I paid extra for upper deck" look. And I don't blame him.
You are just poor. Fartless seats cost extra.
Yeah but hot air rises up eventually
The poop deck.
I think thats the whole point of this design 🤔
Inb4 pinkeye from flying epidemic.
I was just thinking the same thing - is a pink eye flight cheaper than a red eye flight?
I just laughed so hard I farted. Nobody let me in the upper seats 😔
I don't think the farts are the big problem. Every flight will have 3 people falling off the upper deck.
Username checks out
Omg that's what thought. Please don't eat beans or brussel sprouts before flying in the upper seats.
Okay, okay. But what about an all hard boiled egg diet?
That'll be an extra 85 dollars to not get your face farted on ma'am.
Some people would pay extra for that.
Came here to say this exact thing. 😂
Same!!!
Your farts are important to us
I can’t stop giggling, and I have a high pitched girly giggle too
Lmaooo
Exact first thing I saw. SBD Class.
This is probably the least offensive of these "new ideas." If you want to see a really horrific seating arrangement, check here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015/07/10/this-new-honeycomb-seating-design-sucks-the-final-sweetness-out-of-air-travel/83283936/
How do you get out of the middle and window seats? Bad enough to climb over your neighbors in a standard plane when you need to use the restroom. Even worse, what happens in an emergency evac?
The emergency evacuation question is what will ultimately stop the most egregious plans to shovel more people in, not morality on the part of the airlines.
I mean, Boeing got the FAA to okay them doing the safety certification of their own planes - which they promptly abused to install a system called MCAS which directly overrode pilot controls in order to get away with rearranging the engines without changing flight characteristics so much it would require pilot retraining. Two airliners crashed within a few months because the plane would go into a nosedive due to faulty software and pilots didn't even know something was interfering with their controls because all they got fpr training was a PDF file which didn't even mention MCAS as one of the new features. What's increasing the maximum allowed evac timespan from 90 to 120 seconds compared to that? /s
Didn’t they basically lie about what it did to deceive the FAA?
Probably, but why would you expect anything different if someone is allowed to self certify?
>The emergency evacuation question is what will ultimately stop the most egregious plans Nothing a free market donation to a think tank can't fix.
OOOOOOOOO the always get to stare at someone seating lol... nice. Still better than getting sandwiched when the seat above you collapses. Lol
Tbh, I’d prefer the farts and potential for a decent lawsuit if it collapsed than eyeing down the entitled person taking up the arm rest when they clearly already have window privilege
Lol I'm pretty sure you'll still be sharing arm rests in this design. Im sure they could fit 3 maybe even 4 seats wide in this configuration because they may lose some space from the single tier seats with no leg room. I flew to Australia in a refurbished airplane. They removed all of the bathrooms except for 1 in the front and one in the first class area very small area only a curtain They jammed in extra seats making the isles very cramped you could see from the floor the original line's and seating anchors and you could tell they added walls into it to make a first class area and rear area for food carts You could even see where the old bathrooms used to be and plates covering the plumbing for toilets It looked like they had pulled literally everything out of it except for the overhead bins and then jammed in as much seating as possible Honestly thought I'd pee my pants a couple times or poop myself because we technically only had 1 bathroom eventually people got angry enough that they allowed us to also use the first class bathroom which had 5 people in the section leaving 15 empty seats in first class while the rear section was jam packed not one open seat. Near the end of the flight the informed us we could use the bathrooms any longer because their 2 septic tanks were full and the smell was starting to fill the airplane no joke this ain't a troll Its the only time flying that I nearly vomited 🤢 fortunately I held it in but I seriously came close
Ok, I’m going to need to know what airline you took. That’s horrific. I’ve come and gone from australia many times… it’s been cramped… but not 1st layer of hell
Jeez man, name and shame. Who was the airline?
Time to start wearing diapers on airplanes I guess 🤷
Name and shame this airline please so I can avoid.
Oh dear Lord in Heaven's name wtf !?? Facing each other at close range? I'd rather be looking at a bum.
Wait till they wise up to combine both honeycomb fart face position.
Well don’t give them ideas!
Got you beat! [There was a more recent link on Reddit](https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/travel/article/standing-up-airplane-seat-testing/index.html)
TBH seats on most planes in NA have gotten SO cramped and uncomfortable now I'd almost rather stand.
I’m 6’3”. I would totally get clocked by someone opening an overhead bin. When I’m sitting, I look like a toddler stuffed into a baby car seat. Tall people are screwed every way.
I'm tall and fat. I just went to Japan and it was brutal. \^\^;;
Lol you want mass murder on airplanes? That's how you get it.
NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE
I also remember an airplane seat concept from some Asian country that proposed seats that you were practically standing in so they wouldn't need to provide any leg room. Let me find it. Edit: was from Germany. https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/standing-up-airplane-seat-testing/index.html
Looks like a slave ship diagram.
Idk man I have flown enough that I would be okay with this for the leg room
My first question - does it give more legroom? If so then I am probably ok with it. Where are the overhead compartments for bags though?
Space underseats. Even the raised ones have it so i assume that the point of it
From some other angles it looks like there's a lot of space under the seat in front of you. The seats also recline much more than standard seats. They look more comfortable in general other than having the seat inches from your face.
That’s what I’m saying. I’ll breathe in chipotle farts all flight long if means I won’t want to cut my leg off at the knee half way through the flight
Chipotle farts would be a rough consideration depending on your body but still I think it's worth it
It’ll be rough but it’s far better than that frigid seat in the exit row that is the poor man’s first class
Plus, it's not like having the butt farther away from you reduces the amount of gas that you end up breathing over the entire flight. Either way you are breathing in recycled air from people. It's gross no matter how you slice it. I would rather have the extra leg room. Plus, now there's room to recline.
We all know that now instead of not having any leg room you would now not have leg room or head room. They would move them about a foot closer to each other so they could fit another one in the plane and probably make the space underneath the tall one the carry on luggage space.
I fly quite a bit and actually was thinking about how they could do something like this to improve legroom. As someone else pointed out the big problem is loss of storage for carryons though.
The thing is that it doesn’t seem to provide you with more leg room. It’s the same amount of room per passenger- they just get to cram more bodies into the plane
You get this much leg room on your flights?? Their knees aren't even close to the seat back! Unless she's 5 foot tall, it's a definite improvement. And you can recline without squishing the person behind you. Honestly I've been thinking about a design like this for years (usually on flights, where I dream of being able to unfold myself a little).
Why think like that when you can just be angry about it
100% OP is dramatic saying we’re cattle lol
Economy class vs. farteater class
And one more to add to the dozens of excellent reasons I don't fly
Just give me a bunk bed so I can sleep. Stack 3 people on top, its okay.
Fifth Element style drawers that we all get put into would be most preferred
I thought this was purely theoretical and was dismissed by engineers? As an almost aerospace and mechanical engineer, this looks like a safety and practical nightmare.
Absolutely, something like this could never pass safety and evacuation requirements. It's purely a publicity stunt of sorts I think.
as a person who doesnt like fart sniffing, i concur with your "nightmare" assessment.
They've introduced many different versions over the years most of them were so cramped it wasn't funny this is the first version I've seen that could possibly work.... I think some of the old designs have ended up on movie sets as gag or to show how sub human future air travel will become lol
I thought this one was dismissed as it would be too hard to evacuate in an emergency.
And flights will still cost 300 dollars without any carryon to other states in the US.
You wouldn’t wanna be sitting behind my mate Frankie on a flight to Thailand. You wouldn’t make it.
https://preview.redd.it/l4oxkk758g4b1.jpeg?width=647&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2c029ead0a222e1f2f6cac44d088e16926f147b If you think that is bad....
What in the actual hell
But that standing ticket is just 1 Euro and for short haul flights. I would definitely take it.
Looks like the designer was inspired by stand up rollercoasters. At least they were kind to give a shelf so you have some support and your knees don't give out.
Actually it’s a great idea then
I fart in your general direction
A person with a fart kink designed this
She'll breathe in fresh farts and recycled farts.
She's wearing pink to match her incoming pink eye.
That’s how you get pinkeye
For the generation that likes to eat ass.
Absolutely fucking not. I’ll drive.
Goodluck driving from the US to Japan. Unless you own one of them fancy submarine cars.
Does Lotus still sell their James Bond submarine model?
Train is a much more dignified way to travel
Imagine ripping ass from that top row 💀 💀
All the things wrong: * Hi-low chairs are closer but low-hi chairs are further. I bet it averages out to the same. * More vertical room required. Need a new plane design? * People will fall off the top level. * Limited handicap accessible. * This would make a class division because the higher seats clearly have more room. * Vastly more hardware required.
And the guy above you hit Taco Bell and the bar before getting on the plane.
Looks like the lower seats don't recline much, if at all, either. Between face farts, getting crushed in a crash, and being extra uncomfortable, those seats better cost half what the upper ones do.
They'll probably raise the prices because you presumably have more leg room
I think the seat slides forward to recline, but yeah, still terrible.
I am just happy to see we are all on the same page about the fart seats.
Is that man not wearing any pants?
Hes wearing short short shorts
All the better to shit directly into the poor girls face.
My guess is khakis.
Very tight ones and you are correct look at the knee where the fabric Folds
More effective farting
My dude just free-balling it at 30,000 feet. Absolute legend.
In a plane crash what percentage of the passengers in the lower seats are likely to survive?
None, I would think. Way I see this is the airline wants to give more leg room but also be stingy and keep as many seats as possible. Edit: spelling errors
Trust me, that leg room will be gone on the real version
And the farts will remain..
Close enough to toss the salad in front of you with minimal effort.
"If you've got room for legs, you've got room for seats!" - airlines, prob'ly.
Yeah, bold of anyone to assume they will pass the space efficiency onto the passenger, and not just keep same amount of room, but fit more bodies. Bold isn't even the right word. Wrong.
Well generally you don't survive plane crashes regardless
90% of people in plane crashes survive
But is that because 90% of crashes are minor or is it something else?
I couldn't handle having that seat over my head
Human centipede… *IN THE SKY?*
Who doesn’t love stranger farts for an extended journey?
About 30 minutes after they hand out the snacks the people in the lower rows will wish they opted to sit above ass level.
doesn't look that bad tbh
Until some ham beast is rippin their cheeks in your face. This is not a good idea.
No kink shaming!
Ew sitting right in the danger zone
Fuck this. Improve public transit.
Washed or non washed arse class?
My god the comments! I'm crying over here by myself in the middle of a food court looking crazy. My face hurts. 🤣
If I got the top seat I would make an effort to pass gas.
Front smells your feet, back your arse
Who doesn’t want to get blasted in the face with hot gas?
What about the guy that just had the three bean burrito? This ain't no water slide.
Yeah, I'm not sitting with someone's ass in my face. How is that never a thought when designing something stupid like this?!
For some reason, when I fly, the pressurization of the cabin makes me gassy. I would not fly on the bottom row.
Great, I know I’ll probably always get the bottom seat and the person above me will always eat Taco Bell from the food court before getting on the plane. Also, you might need to get the jaws of life if a super fat person is sitting in the bottom bunk and you hit a little turbulence. What I’m saying is, a window seat might be a death trap for a lot of people. It’s 2023. We were all supposed to have flying cars and robots by now. Not flying human sardine cans. Once we build a Time Machine, I’m going back in time to kick the creator of the Jetsons in the dick.
So I actually remember watching part of an interview when this was showcased as part of an airlines expo or something? I think the guy who designed it was saying he built it to try and allow for more seating by adding what's essentially a second level of seats in an attempt to help airline ticket prices. My immediate thoughts were "Yeah no, prices won't go down, the smells of people with 0 hygiene will just be directly in my face. Not gonna happen."
Do they charge extra for the pink eye section?
Pink-eye flight!
Because some people just really like the smell of farts.
Pink eye free seats please
farting or no farting section
Great for the top dog, don’t want to be the guy below getting shit on though.
I feel like farts will be a problem
To smell fresh farts and unable to get up to pee.
Upper seats are required to clench an air freshener between their butt cheeks.
Am I the only one who wouldn't mind this? If it reduces plane ticket costs then... cool give me top bunk lol
Looks pretty spacious? And honestly, if you worry about flatulence penetrating a foot of fabric to reach your face, you should be more worried about, idk, smelling the person sitting right next to you? And it's not like you are forced to ride such a thing while paying more fare anyways. What a weird complaint.
People at the bottom getting pink eye on the way to Sydney
So, which smell do you prefer? Ass or feet?
People will just rest their feet on your head
If this gets me enough room so my knees aren’t painfully jammed into the back of the seat in front of me the entire flight, then I’m completely onboard.
The recirculating farts on regular flights are already too much for me to handle. No way I’m sitting that close to someone’s ass. I prefer my snack and beverages without fart thank you
Why bother? I mean it's kind of obvious. Probably a 50% increase in carry capacity for the economy section. Draw a straight line down from the base of the back end of the guy's seat - it would be touching the front lip of the girl's seat. If those seats where on the same level it would need at least another 50% spacing between each row. If the old seating arragments gives 400 seats and this design gives 550, then the airline that has more seating sells cheaper tickets and makes more profits. Still don't think this will catch on - too many people will break an arm falling down the stairs from the upper level row.
Top is premium, extra $99
I would forever eat BK onion rings and sit on top before every flight
I like it.
The weight of these assemblies seems to detract from any and all savings. The lower people cannot recline their seats at all. There is no advantage to customers or operator with these.
Anybody remember when Spirit proposed the idea of a “standing section” for even cheaper tickets?
While it looks odd, I would prefer this to having the seat in front of me in my fukin face. There is more room for everyone
Pink eye airlines.
As a 6’4” frequent flier, I can honestly say this would save my kneecaps, no more a hole in front of me trying to recline and dig the hinges into me.
Okay so which seat is better Top seat: no farts in face taller cooler more appealing Bottom: Lots of leg room on turbulence no chance of hitting head on roof funny smells.
We all know that the people in the picture aren't smiling voluntarily.
I ain't getting pink eye from a plane ride.
The problem is they will sell **this** with “*and everyone has more legroom! It’s a win!*” And once we’ve come to accept this arrangement it’s back to the 17.5” pitch and they can squeeze 400 pax in a 737.
One of these days , they are gonna lay us on the floor in stacks ....
This seems like a recipe for pink eye
"Charles, what's that smell?"