It’s about the seats. There has to be a better way to arrange passengers. Rows are a terrible use of space. All that headroom is wasted while you’re jammed in knees to back.
Packed that tight, it’s impossible to get comfortable. I have a cousin who brings his knees to his chest and sleeps in a ball, but I am too tall for that. 5’10” seems a little short to be too tall for planes.
The truth is, all I want to do is lie down, but the closest I can get is to recline into the lap of the person behind me. A bit rude, but I’ll probably do it anyway.
Here’s the idea. Get rid of the seats. All of them. Replace them with Japanese nap pods.
Have you heard of these? These coffin-style rent-a-beds popped up in the 80s in Japan for businessmen to grab a few winks mid-day. Lately, they’ve turned into apartments for the unemployed, but that’s another topic for another day.
Replace rows with bunks of pods, so we can all lie down and go to sleep. I’ll gladly trade a covert battle with a stranger over the armrest for being able to toss and turn mid-nap.
And it solves a few other of flying’s drawbacks. No more kids bicycle kicking your seat. No more old men only mostly coughing into their handkerchiefs. No more pee-dancers waking you to escape the row. With pods, everyone gets an aisle and a window.
Flight attendants will be relieved to deal with much more docile passengers. Most will nap, while the friskier take advantage of the privacy. Suffice to say, the mile-high club will see a boon in membership.
So get on it, airline industry. When it comes to planes, I want my personal space horizontal. I may be flying coach this week, but I want to fly back pod.
Until next week,
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Jonathan Rozen
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