This Is the Future of Air Travel

This is a real nightmare. If I ever learn that a company uses these seats, I will avoid them. Even if they are the cheapest.

Even though I hardly travel, I feel even less need to do so in the future.

I highly doubt that the average north american would fit.

I'd rather walk. This is getting ridiculous.

and fidgety kids? and car seats? Looks like my behind would fall asleep.

Um. No.

Wow, are they purposefully trying to make people stop flying..? WHo would pay to sit in that!

No and No. Hope some airline IS stupid enough to put these in, just so we can see it backfire on them.

I think the model's smirk pretty much sums up the general reaction to this concept.

What a bunch of a$$holes. These people should be figuring out ways of giving us more room in the same footprint rather than cramming more people in. I know, why don't we just chuck everyone in the hold, no seats, just a big pile of people? It'll be cheap. Wankers. I bet they fly business class too.

And what marketing research firm showed that people were willing to put up with this?

You know, many of the Scotch Irish who came to the US in the 18th and early 19th century came as ballast in the holds of the sailing ships...lying in their own excrement most of the way.

And they paid for the privilege.

The more things change.

Shhh dermot, Don't give the airlines ideas!

Everyone needs to stop whining! The airlines are already flying buses as it is. This is the natural evolution of the corporate profit model. These seats today, standing tommorrow, and then they will be stacking us flat like in slave-ships circa 1800. The sad thing? No matter what- the flights will ALWAYS be full!

Hmm. We seem to forget that 100 years ago 99% of the population did not have the luxury to move so quickly from one point to another around the globe. Those who are complaining can pretend it's 1910 and stay home.

"Dreadful" is too nice a word for these hideous torture-racks. This makes waterboarding look downright relaxing. Whatever these designers and marketing idiots are smoking, send me a kilo.

u mad fatties?

@c0ldfish - I thought that was clearly implied?

where are the seat belts? and since it looks as though you have to sit with your legs apart, you better not be wearing a mini skirt.

@yep - At least in a bus I have room to move, and the cost is affordable.
Those honestly look like old fashioned aluminum lawn chairs stretched out.

what's this???? It's really ridiculous. I would rather stand.hufff....
smartraveluk

Yet another argument for high-speed trains.

I used to go to school in Oklahoma and come home to California on breaks and I drove every single time. It was great. I could stop whenever I wanted to, eat whenever I was hungry, sleep at a hotel when I was tired, and I even did a little sightseeing along the way. I know this isn't the solution for everyone, but come on people, if you are tired of being treated like livestock, stop supporting the airline industry. If enough people stopped flying, maybe they would actually give a fuck.

My worst nightmare. I've always been bothered by the close distance between my face and the seat infront. Now i can lick it.

wel you wil always have a choice to pay more and upgrade to firstclass :)

I suspect they're just going for free publicity like the twit who runs ryanair.

I'd actually prefer these seats. It looks like I'd be less cramped. My legs get tight and I'm always trying to stretch them out if I sit down too long. I imagine these seats would keep circulation going a lot more.

Reminds me of Louis C.K. doing his "Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy" routine.

"Flying is the worst one because people come back from flights and they tell you their story and it’s like a horror story. It’s, they act like their flight was like a cattle car in the 40’s in Germany. That’s how bad they make it sound. They’re like it was the worst day of my life. First of all we didn’t board for 20 minutes and then we get on the plane and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes. We had to sit there. Oh really, what happened next? Did you fly through the air incredibly like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight, you non-contributing zero?"

For an aircraft, even the short haul commuter planes this seat is for, no. Put them on ground based mass transit sytems, sure.

Or use them a seats on a roller coaster, with appropriate restraints of course.

I'm 6'9" and already can't fit into planes or buses unless I'm in the seats next to the emergency exits. It's not just uncomfortable - I physically cannot fit into the space they give you. There are a lot of tall people about, so this will penalise us more, and I realise that I'm 'extra tall' but anyone over 6' will have problems with this nonsense of an idea.

this looks extremely uncomfortable!!!i can't imagine sitting like that for a 20 hour flight.

Without at minimum a height adjustment I can't imagine how this design could be implemented in a way that meets safety standards.

Certainly wouldn't be easy for disabled or elderly people to get in and out, and wouldn't market well to the business crowd that does work on a plane. I suspect the market of people willing/able to sit in these seats is rather small.

On the up side you don't have to worry about the idiot in front of your reclining their seat for the entire flight.

Why isn't there another model sitting in the back row?

looks like those toilet seats for the sick in a hospital. I think it is a better idea to stack em' up like a bunker bed, at least we get to sleep horizontally.

No thanks!

Never happen. Look at the model's legs - she'd never fit into the row behind her.

This is destined to remain a concept. Unless you own Stick Figure Airlines.

So are we going to have to file class-action suits against the airlines over design issues??

Maybe an ADA suit for excluding anyone over 5'5" and 120lbs?

I wouldn't be able to squeeze into the seat row.

I hope this seat designer dies in a fire.

I call shenanigans. This is a publicity stunt. There is no way this could ever be implemented by any airline, much less small short distance commuters. Why? They are already flying at capacity. There are these thing, they are called the law of physics and gravity. A plane can only carry so much weight, and guess what Menoud, that is exactly how much they are already carrying!

UffDA

Oh, this'll never fly.

Yes, pun intended.

I'd like it more than current seats if there is enough headroom to stand up.
It'd be awesome if instead of leaning your seat back you could crank it upwards.

And yet still more room than on a Continental coach seat.

Hell, even skinny people would have a problem getting in and out of the seat isles if those were ever put on to planes.
Makes me feel claustrophobic just looking at it.

I am 6 foot 2 inches.

At the first jolt this would crush my kneecaps so badly that I would never be able to walk again.

Look at how skinny that model is (compared to the cows I normally sit next to.) and she's ALREADY taking up both armrests.

The airlines need to stop trying to fit more people in less space, and start putting 2 armrests on EACH seat, instead of 4 armrests for 3 seats.

As for kissing the seat in front of me, that's absurd as well.

Just turn the damn thing horizontal and give me a bed. .. I could live with that for a flight :)

It may have appeal with airlines, but what about their passengers (or ex-passengers who decide to switch to a different airline)?

There's no way this position can be comfortable!

Also how are kids, the elderly, people who are very short, people who are disabled (I'm a wheelchair user myself who wouldn't last 2 seconds in a seat like this (if I could even get in it) before I smashed headfirst into the seat ahead of me (should I be thankful it's really close?) and sliding onto the floor...

I think the "designers" and head of any airlines interested should be made to do a couple of long-haul flights in these "seats"! I bet they wouldn't make it through the first couple of hours...

Ok.... for everybody from the states who just read this article, I got three little words for you....
HIGH SPEED RAIL. Screw flying.