Nightmare face to face airline seats revealed

Airline industry seat supplier Zodiac Seats France wants to introduce alternating forward and backward facing seats, placed side-by-side.

This seating configuration has been referred to as awkward, nightmarish, hellish and even evil! A lot of hate for these seats and I don’t blame those who’ve made these comments.

I’ve got a different take on these. I see them as a safety concern. I really wonder whether they have seriously tested this in an emergency situation. Whether passengers will be disorientated in an evacuation, especially if the cabin is full of smoke.

It only takes a few to lose their sense of direction and confusion and panic to set in and we’ll have a disaster. I’m not sold on this idea of people sitting in the reverse sense of travel. In fact I think there was a study done with most people feeling uncomfortable sitting back-to-front. Even in Business Class. Besides most people prefer not to look at others face on, unless of course it’s someone you know and are comfortable with. A recipe for awkward air travel in my opinion. A total fail.

You can read a bit more about these seats at The Verge

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