Eli5: Plane Seating

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When on a commercial plane why do all the passengers sit up right. I understand they are trying to fit the most amount of people in the smallest amount of space. Couldn’t all the seats become more like beds, oriented horizontal with everyone laying down, and they could be stacked vertically. If this isn’t an option they could at least have all the seats pre set at a heavy recline angle, I just see on most flights over 2 hours everyone is trying to rest up. Surprised that one of the airlines hasn’t started to cater to an aspect like this.

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You do not have to be sitting right up. You can also be standing, strapped to a kinda-sorta “seat”. The system has already been tested by a few low-budget airlines.

I have traveled in a long-distance bus where they put all the seats in horizontal position and we were lying down for the night. It is forbidden now here in EU. If there is a collision there is nothing to stop you from sliding all the way through the bus.

There are sleeper train cars, but there is enough space there to accommodate that on the train. And you pay extra as this – way fewer passengers can fit in the same space.

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