European designers have come up with a super cool new business class seat idea: Stacked pods or “capsules” that offer privacy AND a 76″ true flat bed for sleeping. (Link to full article here from TerminalU.)
Right now it’s just a concept, but it’s a good one and makes me hopeful for the future of good sleep on overnight transoceanic flights. What do you think? Would you book a private pod for your next business trip?
So what do you think? Is the airplane cabin a happy hunting ground for gold diggers? Does Delta feel like a “richer” airline than others? Please leave your comments below.
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The stacked pods look absolutely great for sleeping. However, I fear the effect on me of sitting in such a pod for more than thirty minutes in the “awake mode” would be one of claustrophobia.
This design looks like no more than an aircraft adaptation of the Duplex Roomette developed by both the Budd Company and Pullman in the late 1940s and early 1950s for post-war sleeping cars for the railroads. The Duplex Roomette also involved over-and-under single-passenger compartments on either side of a center aisle, with a seat by day and a fold-down berth at night, but also with enclosed sink and toilet facilities in each room. Your older readers may remember these sleepers with their distinctive up-and-down windows. Introduction of jet aircraft in domestic service around 1960 mooted much of the demand for this type of rail accomodation by business travelers.