Unless you are the very few who can afford to pay extra money for a business class or first class seat, you know how uncomfortable and painful a long flight can be. Sitting on those awkward and narrow seats, struggling to keep your head steady from accidentally leaning on the stranger next to you, the economy class flight isn’t exactly the best place to be sitting for hours. First few hours may be bearable but after a few hours, you’re itching to stretch out your leg and dying to lay down somewhere. This feeling is all too familiar for many of us, but it looks like you may have the chance to avoid this feeling by sleeping on a bunk bed!
Finally, a German airline, Lufthansa, has introduced the concept of triple bunk beds available for economy class! This is exactly what everyone has been waiting for! What’s not to be excited? Instead of having to sit in a small seat for 10 hours or so, you can leisurely lay on your own bed instead. Lufthansa has release official computer generated pictures which show rows of beds stacked on top of each other along the sides of the plane. The beds are positioned diagonally along the sides with two additional rows of beds in the middle of the plane. I must say, it looks much more appealing than economy class seats!
So why has airlines hesitated in the past to building beds in planes? Well, to be fair, airlines made the seats small for a reason. In order to fit in hundreds of passengers in an efficient way, the seats were built to fit maximum capacity. With this new development of utilizing triple bunk beds, airlines can still fit in a large number of passengers who will happily return for that comfortable experience.
But wait, how comfortable and safe could a bed be on a plane that potentially shakes and moves erratically from time to time? While all this may sound very appealing to the average passenger, it is still hard to fathom the concept of laying down on a bunk bed where a violent shake from the plane can have me falling or flying across the room. Of course, seat belts would do its job in keeping me from moving around everywhere but would I really sleep comfortably being strapped to a bed elevated several feet in the air? This new concept is definitely interesting and I would have to experience it in person to really reap the full advantages, but until then, I have my doubts.
