The Flying Hive

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As if the “flying doughnut” and bicycle-esque seat weren’t bad enough, a new airplane seating arrangement threatens to eliminate every last ounce of air travelers’ dignity by forcing them to stare at one another for the duration of a flight.

It’s called the “economy class cabin hexagon” and it looks as awful as it sounds.

 

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(H/T: Nelly Bergman)

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19 thoughts on “The Flying Hive

  1. Peadar

    So what? You don’t have to travel on one of these if you don’t want to, and they will make air travel cheaper for the people who are willing to put up with it.

    It’s like the people who criticise Ryanair for not giving you an allowance for hold luggage. I rarely travel with hold luggage, and it means that I don’t get charged as if I did.

    1. The Old Boy

      Precisely so. In fact, people who despise Ryanair and never fly with them benefit immensely from its existence on routes where they compete.

    2. realPolithicks

      You are very naïve if you believe they will introduce this configuration and make flights cheaper.

      1. Peadar

        It’s a competitive sector. If they introduce this seating arrangement and stay the same price as Easyjet, they won’t get any customers. I’m not naive enough to think that they won’t increase their margins on each individual passenger by doing this, but at the same time, they are a business, not some sort of cartoon villain, and if they don’t pass on some of the savings to the consumer, they will lose market share.

    1. Tidy Dave

      Yeah, I mean I’ve always found it hard to start flirting on a plane. This’ll make eye-contact a cakewalk.

    2. realPolithicks

      On trains you can get up and walk around to get a break from your travelling companions, you can’t do that on a plane. Six hours or more sitting like that would be a complete pain the rear end. (pun intended)

  2. Troy

    So I don’t have to rub shoulders with the fat guy beside me and I have more privacy while on my laptop researching top secret documents. Plus the added benefit of catching a cute girls eye if she sits across from me!

    This is a pretty solid idea if you ask me!

    Don’t we sit across from each on the dart and back of the bus and that doesn’t phase any of us!

    One possible major flaw is if I put my chair back and so does the guy behind me on my left or right does it turn into a love seat kind of situation?! lol

  3. Tidy Dave

    I’m surprised Mani hasn’t pointed out the wanking efficiency of those seat layouts yet.

    So I suppose I’ve got that covered now.

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