New Herringbone seating (in reverse)

[davidj]

I saw this a few days ago and thought I'd share.

The FA agreed he'd never seen this before. Maybe I've been sitting in it wrong all this time?

 

[TomVexille]

While I applaud the creativity, surely that's not as comfortable as using the seat as intended.

 

[Denali]

Ummm...

Hope there's no turbulence or he's going to Crack his head or the seat hardware.

 

[darkice]

I guess it's a bit darker, no need the eye mask

 

[MEL_Traveller]

While I applaud the creativity, surely that's not as comfortable as using the seat as intended.

Swapping around can be more comfortable for a couple reasons... actual full flats will have a couple of degrees incline due to the nose-up attitude of the aircraft in flight. Some people don't like their feet being above their head. Turning around can solve that. Others like to have plenty of room for their feet, so changing direction gives you that. (The CX F seats are more comfortable in reverse!)

However, I'd be surprised if the crew didn't instruct the passenger to turn around as (a) the seat belt in that position is likely to be around the knee area and not the waist, which makes it less effective (and as pointed out, the head could come in to direct contact with the foot well), and (b) the proximity of the oxygen mask... which will be by the feet in this sleeping position and not in handy reach (plus the passenger may be disorientated).

 

[Aeolus]

Funnily enough, out of desperation, I thought of doing exactly the same on a CX A350 flight this week. Seat guru rated row 19 as bad seats so I got them to change to the front row seat which was one of the worst decision ever as both the toilets and galley were at the front and the curtain kept opening every 5 mins on a 2am flight disrupting my sleep.

 

[Hvr]

Maybe they're used to flying BA where their seats are reversed?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

BA has had it in J class on their 787s.

 

[serfty]

There was a guy who regularly posted on the BA FT forum who had a continual battle watch FA'S regards his desire to sleep on the old BA First seats head to tail.