[ObsoleteNerd]

I’d love a capsule-hotel-style option. I don’t care how cramped it is. I feel like you could stack some bunks that take up the same cubic-space-per-seat as existing seats. I only need enough space to lie sideways with my phone in front of my face and a USB port and I’d travel a lot lot more.

Context: Physically disabled and have issues sitting on chairs for longer than 1-2hrs before my legs are in excruciating pain, but also, before I had this issue I would’ve loved a submarine-bunk option.

[fivre]

You could, and you'd likely create an evacuation pathway nightmare in the process.

[systemtest]

You could eject the sleeping pods out the side of the plane with a small thruster rocket and a parachute.

[d33]

Ignorant question, but: do we actually have at least one (preferably more) documented cases of where the evacuation happened and was successful?

[jcranmer]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 ?

[saagarjha]

> I only need enough space to lie sideways with my phone in front of my face

This sounds like it'd get a lot more uncomfortable than sitting pretty quickly.

[ObsoleteNerd]

Each to their own. I sleep on my side so that’s all the space I’d need to rest and read or watch something on my phone for a while then sleep for the rest of the trip. I’d rather sleep through flights than sit uncomfortably crammed into the pathetically small chairs they give you these days.

[seanmcdirmid]

Beds in Asia often don’t have a lot of padding, they aren’t designed for side sleepers, you would be on your back quickly. Incidentally, a wooden chinese bed will cure you of side sleeping in a few days if you ever want to go that route. I found my sleep was better, but I reverted back to side sleeping quickly after getting to use a normal western bed again (after about six months of using the Chinese bed).

[saagarjha]

If you're just sleeping I can see it being fine. I'm just concerned that doing anything other than that will be uncomfortable.