Whut: will our flights look like this in the future?
If you thought you were uncomfortable sitting in your easyJet plane, then I probably have bad news for you. Especially if you always have too little legroom (I luckily don't have problems with my just over one meter sixty), this is also bad news. It seems that the future of commercial flights will be more about quantity than quality.
A new airplane has been designed whose drawings look quite concerning. It is the Chaise Longue Economy Seat, which really wants to fit as many people as possible in an airplane. This design is actually made for that: optimizing the space of an airplane, but still with enough comfort for the passengers. Hmm. When I see the photo, I'm not entirely convinced that comfort really played a role during this design process.
The airplane is arranged like a sort of double-decker, where you actually have the worst deal upstairs. So if you can and want to book this: take that downstairs seat, because there you can lean back and your legs have all the space. Unfortunately, that's not the case upstairs, so if you have long legs, you'll quickly find yourself against the wall. That's a downside for the taller people among us, I think.
Fun fact: this design was made by students from TU Delft, so of course they took KLM as an example in terms of color and look for the outside of the airplane. Because yes, they have tinkered with that too. Honestly: this doesn't do my fear of flying any good, but it does look really cool. If this is really going to happen, I hope they always play the theme song from Star Wars upon entry, because this design looks like it flew straight out of that movie.
The question is of course whether this design will ever really come through, but I wouldn't be surprised if in the future more and more attention is paid to how to fit more passengers in a smaller area. So far, it makes me a bit claustrophobic, and therefore I still vote against it. KLM, will you please do some good research with your passengers before you go ahead?
