On a lighter note than usual, the other day I was having a neck and back massage and for the first time in my life I tried one these chairs:
And they are amazingly comfortable...
So why don't we use them on airplanes?
I live on a different continent from where I was born so I frequently (2-3 times a year) travel back home on a 13 hour flight. And it's always very very painful!
Why do airlines not use these kind of chairs? They would be:
- more comfortable
- more secure (the most secure chair configuration would be rotated backward but this is usually not liked by passengers) as it's already in brace position
- it seems to me they use a smaller form factor as well so potentially more economical
To be clear I'm not arguing for these chairs:
Even if it would be very nice! But on normal relatively cheap massage chairs.
My guess is that any change to aviation industry standard is now a very difficult consensus problem (segwit2x reminds you of anything?), and hence it's very difficult to make any change (for instance how long it took to allow partial use of cellphones on board).
What do you think?
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