Did the sky move for you darling?

[TheGreenGoblin]

All said in a suitably flat vowelled NZ way...

Air New Zealand has announced it could have flat beds in economy for some of its long-haul flights, but it will be more than a year before customers could get the chance to sleep in one of the new pod beds.

The airline said on Wednesday it had filed patent and trademark applications for what it is calling the Economy Skynest. The Skynest would contain six full-length sleep pods at 200cm long and 58cm wide each. There will be three levels of beds and two beds on each level.

Accompanying each bed, which resembles a pod hotel design, will be a full-size pillow, sheets and blankets, ear plugs, and a privacy curtain. Air New Zealand was still assessing whether it could include other features like a USB outlet and a reading light.

The company’s chief marketing and customer officer, Mike Tod, said in the announcement that the product would be aimed at some of Air New Zealand’s longest haul flights, including the Auckland to New York service launching next year – the flight takes 17 hours and 40 minutes.

Bunk beds...

[TheGreenGoblin]

Not an entirely new idea...

https://www.airspacemag.com/history-of- ... 125048102/

Sabrina in the 1950's

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Weren't some of the Boeing Stratocruisers so equipped?

[Boac]

Captions for tgg's picture invited.

[TheGreenGoblin]

Not an entirely new idea...

Weren't some of the Boeing Stratocruisers so equipped?

It seems they were. Who would knock the idea of putting the kids to bed and retiring to the bar or the Hawaiian lounge ...

Boeing Stratocruiser

The Stratocruiser’s luxury or atmosphere.was never duplicated in the early jets. Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, a regular Stratocruiser passenger, preferred its slow stately luxury to the needless haste of jet travel. It was Fleming’s airliner of choice for Agent 007. In Diamonds are Forever Bond smuggles diamonds to New York on a BOAC Boeing Stratocruiser flight from London. In For Your eyes only Bond is jet bound on a Comet to Montreal and laments the passing of the Stratocruiser. Back in the 1950’s it took 16 1/2 hours from London to new York with refueling stop in Shannon Ireland. On the lumbering jumbo here was time for the cocktail hour, peaceful dinners, seven hours of sleep in a comfortable bunk and wondering down to the lower deck for a dawn ‘Country House Breakfast’. On the Comet or Boeing 707 speed replaced that feeling of suspended time and space. No more visits from the captain now absorbed in cockpit duties of a fast jet flight.

Maybe Air New Zealand are on to something here.

[Boac]

I can see the conversation on the flight deck - "I say, Bloggs, what is that rhythmic pitching we are getting?"

[TheGreenGoblin]

I can see the conversation on the flight deck - "I say, Bloggs, what is that rhythmic pitching we are getting?"

"You mean a kind of fu...,er I mean phugoid, motion Sir?"

[k3k3]

The first DC3s were sleeper transports.

http://dc3dakotahistory.org/a-dst-trip/

[ribrash]

Captions for tgg's picture invited.

Do you promise not to fart ?

[Ex-Ascot]

We will only fly long haul where the seat turns into a bed. Even better where you have your own cabin. Trouble is I spend most of the night chatting up the girls and drinking fizz instead of sleeping.

Douglas Hurd once had this brilliant idea (much) of how to save money on hotels on a tour of Africa. Meetings during the day and sleep on the aircraft in transit at night. He had a proper bed. No one else did. We were bloody knackered as well. Africa is big but not that big. We were flying zig zags or circles in the sky so he could get a night's sleep. How much did that cost in fuel, crew costs and maintenance?

[John Hill]

The Stratocruiser was so comfortable even the entire crew went to sleep...
https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history ... ipper.html

[John Hill]

Maybe Air New Zealand are on to something here.

They do have some experience of travelling in comfort..


https://m.airraro.com/upload/mobile/cor ... i_teal.jpg

[TheGreenGoblin]

They do have some experience of travelling in comfort..


https://m.airraro.com/upload/mobile/cor ... i_teal.jpg

Air New Zealand, moving you through the sky, comfortably. Darling!