Sleeping places in the plane. Excursion on secret rooms for flight attendants and pilots, in which they can take rise during long flights. The safest places in the plane
In the near future, passengers will be able to approach the choice of economical or business class more rationally, because you can fly not only sitting, but lying or even standing. With details - "Herald Attor".
Letim lying
Which of us, especially on distant many hours of flights, did not dream of stretching and comfortably sleep, but the size of the passenger seat in the usual salon does not allow such luxury. The airlines are constantly trying to solve this problem not only because of the desire to ensure greater comfort to their customers, but also to create on board new services for sale.
It seems that the Golden Mid is found. Airbus with the participation of specialists from Zodiac Aerospace will design sleeping compartments in the cargo holds of their liners, where bunk beds will be installed, as well as space for recreation passengers, including children's rooms.
Replaceable modules, as noted by the representatives of the aircorder, "offer new opportunities for passengers and allow airlines to differentiate and increase the value of their commercial operations." According to developers, modules - sleeping, conference room, sports (simulators), children's game or relaxing (soft relaxing sofas and armchairs) can be interchangeable: airlines will be able to put them on their own, depending on the flight, the audience and the demand of passengers.
"On the far flight of the airline can potentially surrender each of these places to several passengers in different time intervals during the flight. Thus, the economy-class offer can potentially be complemented by a bedroom, "they say in Airbus.
Similar solutions, first of all, sleeping compartments will be presented in the Airbus catalog in 2020 for the A220 model, and the company studies whether they should be offered and for configuration A250 and A330.
Note that it will not be able to buy a ticket for "Lyzhechaya". The passengers will not be able to. In addition, during take-off or landing, access to the cargo zone will be closed.
At the same time, the manufacturer of the aircraft refutes the statement that in the cargo compartment will be very cold. As explained in the Airbus, in the hold of the same pressure as in the cabin, well, except that the "fresher".
"The air-conditioned air is directed from the cab, so by the time it reaches the freight areas, it is a little cooled. In the case of conventional goods, the temperature in the luggage is about + 7c, but in the compartment, where animals are transported, the air can heat up above 18 ° C. Control the desired temperature regime is not a problem, "are emphasized in Airbus.
Flying standing
There are more budget options: the idea of \u200b\u200bstanding places on board the aircraft is discussed not the first year. Italian AvioInteriors decided to beat the "standing format" in its origin, taking a rider saddle as the basis (Skyrider).
A number of "semi-division" will be fixed by vertical racks, a soft upholstery will be located at the thigh level, which will allow the passenger not to experience discomfort. Nevertheless, it will be impossible to sit in such a chair: you can only stand, leaning on the armrests. New chairs, which are two times lighter than standard seats, allow you to increase the passenger capacity of the aircraft by 20%, and therefore sell more tickets to the flight. In this case, the width between the rows of seats will be not 28 inches, as today is practiced in loupes (about 70 cm), and already 23 inches (about 60 cm). According to ICAO rules, in economy class it is recommended to set a step of 30 inches chairs (76 cm).
The idea of \u200b\u200bSkyrider did not like the potential passengers and pilots, which rapidly discuss the novelty on the network. In their opinion, such chairs are not suitable for those who travel with small children, or for obese people and in general for travelers "non-standard sizes". "These seats look like machines for creating blood clots", - exccoo noticed one of the users.
Other users of the foreign segment of the network, submitted by the staff of airlines, to the voice say that such new products are from the category of "Haip", and in real practice they will simply do not pass due to the requirements aviation security And they will not be able to apply airlines with existing international regulations and the regulatory framework.
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Airbus will offer clients with an elevated level of comfort. The world-famous designer of liners equips the range aircraft by mobile bedrooms. The company plans to create zones for sleeping in the cargo compartment of its sides for 2020. Now the personal bedroom cabins can boast only a limited line of liners from Boeing. "360" found out whether the sleeping Airbus will be in demand from Russian carriers.
Source photo: official site airbus
Airbus Aircraft Holding and Zodiac Aerospace Corporation began the joint development of mobile sleeping places for A330 and A350 liners, according to the official press release Airbus. Designers are going to arrange modules with duplex single beds in the cargo compartment. At the same time, sleeping modules will be constructed in such a way that, if necessary, they can be replaced by cargo containers. Also on the spot freight compartment can be placed zone for active rest Passengers, bar or playground.
Meanwhile, the "redevelopment" in airplanes will not affect the level of flight security, promise to Airbus. The load and pressure on the rupture of the aircraft fuselage and the loading system will not be affected. The passenger module will be directly on the loading system.
It is expected that sleeping places on Airbus A330 liners may appear in 2020. In addition, the company studies the ability to place such places above the luggage compartment in A350 XWB liners.
Such a layout of places in liners may be interested in large carriers with a wide range of flights, noted in conversation with "360" independent Avia Hisperspert Dmitry Adamidov. According to him, such aircraft can buy airlines that want to attract new customers with an unusual service.
If Airbus designers can be able to find a way to re-equip existing onboard, then many companies will take advantage of this proposal, as this will help to attract those customers who are willing to pay for increased comfort. Now Airbus A330 has in the park of very many companies. For example, "Aeroflot" flies in the domestic market on these liners
Dmitry Adamidov.
So far, none of the airlines submitted an application for modified aircraft. As "360" told in Nordavia, airlines do not plan to buy similar liners, since all of their fleet consists only of Boeing aircraft.
With a loan for competitors
The first aircraft equipped with bedroom seats appeared on international flights Back in the mid-2000s. So, in 2005, the Boeing Aircraft Building Concern released a new long-haul Boeing Dreamliner 787 aircraft. The liner is a wide-body two-link jet passenger aircraft, which can fly up to 12,000 kilometers and transport from 290 to 330 people depending on the configuration. Approximate value This aircraft is 250 - 300 million dollars.
At the same time, in the first class of a liner on the airline, Boeing designers can install personal sleeping cabins. They are fenced by flexible shutters space, inside of which is a wide armchair. If the passenger is desired, it is transformed into a two-meter bed. IN this moment Most of all aircraft Has a national airline of the United Arab Emirates Etihad. True, the cost of such a comfortable flight is several times higher than the price of a standard flight. For a ticket on the route Melbourne (Australia) - Abu Dhabi (UAE) in the individual cabin will have to pay about 12 thousand dirham, which in terms of dollars is more than three thousand "green". For comparison: the flight in the same direction in the economy class will cost only a thousand dirham (366 dollars).
Kazakh airlines Air. Astana also provides passengers with sleeping places, but already in the economy class cabin. In 2015, airlines launched such flights with departure from Astana to London, Paris and Frankfurt. The sleeping economy "in Kazakh" consists of twin in one line of three chairs and a set, which includes mattress, pillows and a blotting of a business class.
Source photo: Official site Air Astana
Despite the high cost of the flight, airlines are not always advantageous to have liners with an extra bedroom, told the "360" head of the analytical service of the airport information portal Oleg Panteleev. According to him, the companies brings the total number of passengers, and not the price variability of ticket prices.
The fact is that now one of the key trends in the global aviation market is to reduce the cost of a passenger kilometer. For this company, the company increases the number of chairs on board, and the comfort of passengers is ensured by special flexible seats. Therefore, the liners with bedroom cabins only put on prolonged regular flightswhere the salon fill does not have a decisive value for the airline
Oleg Panteleev.
Even if you never flew to long distance, you do not need to have a fantasy imagination to imagine how terrible many hours of flights are terrified. If you do not have a ticket to a business class, then most likely on all over the flight you will have to crawl into a tiny chair surrounded by the same poorness as you. Once in such a situation, we only think about how we are bad and inconvenient, but what is the crew of the aircraft, because it is almost under the same conditions as you.
As it turned out, many of the commercial jets, such as Boeing 777 and 787, have secret rooms for the crew on board, in which stewardess and pilots can relax during long flights.
Many aircraft Boeing 777 and 787 have a hidden screw staircase leading to a small room located above the passenger compartment in which they can relax from endless walks there and the requests of passengers.
This is what this screw staircase looks like.
Do not think that you can climb the stairs, pretending that you are looking for a toilet. These stairs are hidden behind the door, which in most cases do not even look like a door, and, as a rule, to open them, you need either the key or access code
Some aircraft, for example, such as Boeing 773, have hatches in luggage storage places leading to the secret rooms. In this case, the screw staircase is not required
This is what the secret room on board Boeing 787 looks like, in which, as a rule, there are 7-8 beds.
In the secret room of Boeing 777 there are 6-10 beds and a space for storing personal belongings
If you are a pilot, then things are even better. Pilots have several bedrooms in the business class, in which some airlines are also placed cabinets, sink and toilet
Beds of pilots on board Boeing 777
In the airlines, it is strictly complied with the rule sounding as "one pilot on the bed", i.e. While one pilot sleeps or simply rests, the other at this time should be behind the steering wheel
The beds are equipped with lamps, hooks, mirrors, pillows, blankets and even pajamas
Some of them even have entertainment systems. As a rule, this applies to the secret rooms of the aircraft Boeing 787
Boeing 773 Secret Rooms have low ceilings, as well as separate beds with curtains resembling places in a second-class car.
Sleeping places for the crew on the aircraft Airbus A380 Malaysian airline
Luxury rooms for pilots in the same aircraft look much more cute
During long flights, you can not worry about the crew. It would be better for you to worry about the little scoundrel, sitting behind you, who loves to kick the chairs located in front of him.
At the very beginning of aviation history, the aircraft did not know how to fly at the distance further than several hundred kilometers. Today, the aircraft learned to overcome the distances of several thousand kilometers, and with refueling in the air, and more than 10 thousand. Of course, there is not a single passenger liner that could be hurt the land on one fuel pot, but this is not required. It is always hard for far distances. Such heavy rates can already be considered the flights longer than 5 hours. For the convenience of passengers, some airlines are at the aircraft of sleeping cabins.
Upstairs in the photo you see one of the most luxurious passenger seats on the public liner. This is Etihad Airlines, the airline is from the UAE. Soft seat folds, turning into a comfortable bed. At the same time, the seat is initially isolated from others, and the passenger receives an almost personal room at its disposal.
Today, airplanes with bedrooms offer only a few airlines, including Asian and European. The most common aircraft with beds, from Lufthansa. Moreover, in 2007, the airline installed sleeping places not only in the business class, but also in economy. So passengers were able to fly to distant distances with amenities even for relatively small money. For example, bedrooms in Boeing 787 are presented below:
A sleeping place in the plane is very similar to a sleeping place in the train. As a rule, in the airplane beds are also made by two-level. But unlike the train, the luggage under the bed of the first level, usually, should not be put. So beds in airplanes closer to the floor, and further from the ceiling. There are beds and the entire width of the ship, these beds are separated by either sideboards or blinds. On average, on the size of the aircraft, it seems 3-4 people in the width of the side.
But due to the specifics of transport - potential climbs, passengers in airplanes, unlike passengers of trains, have to be fastened even lying. Of course, it imposes a certain discomfort for sleep, but on transatlantic flights it is better to lie and sleep than to sit. You can sleep in the usual salon, if you are lucky and you fly without neighbors, in this case you can sleep on three nearby chairs approximately as in this photo:
If you do not want to sleep on commercial bedding, thinking that there are already some dozen people on it, then try to negotiate with the side-conductors that you are bed of your underwear. you can buy linensIn Moscow, quite a lot of online stores, where you can buy underwear with delivery, it will save you time. Most likely, with some store you may be able to agree on the delivery of linen straight to the airport.
A source: Reuters.
Airbus Aircraft Building Concern and Atelier Zodiac Aerospace announced a revolutionary novelty. For passengers of the economic class in airplanes will appear boxes for sleep. They will be located on the lower deck of the aircraft, where loads are flying and passenger suitcases. The Iz.ru portal figured out when it is possible to pull the legs with a long flight.
Boxes with beds
The concept of modules with passenger beds was represented the other day in Hamburg at the specialized exhibition Aircraft Interiors Expo 2018. This is the world's largest platform, where the air industry represents everything that is waiting for us in airplanes in the distant and not very distant future.
What is the essence of the novelties that Airbus and Zodiac Aerospace presented? If the fuselage passenger aircraft Divide in half, then in its upper part there is a salon for passengers, and from the bottom - the cargo compartment.
Loads - And this can be anything, from the parcels of "Post of Russia" to gold bars - transported in special containers. Here are their authors of the idea and offer to be converted into boxes for sleep.
Judging by the photo, which is published on the Zodiac Aerospace website, sleeping places will be refined econom-class train RUSSIAN RAILWAYS . The passenger descends out passenger Salon On the bottom deck, finds a free space, falls on the bed, closes from all the curtain and rests.
The video recording of new boxes is posted on Twitter by Safran Group, which belongs to Zodiac Aerospace.
At the same time, the modules are made so that airlines themselves will be able to decide how many pieces to install them on board. If necessary, the entire compartment can be taken by cargo containers, and the plane will go on the flight without sleeping places, or - on the contrary.
Moreover, the new system will not require re-equipment of liners - containers with beds can be downloaded not only in new, but also to existing aircraft.
Jeff Pinner, head of Airbus Cabin & Cargo Program, said that their joint development with Zodiac Aerospace is a "new approach to passenger comfort." According to him, the aircraft-building concern has already discussed a novelty with some representatives of airlines, and many of them expressed interest in installing such containers.
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One of them, for example, the Australian airline Qantas. Its executive director Alan Joyce in Bloomberg's comments said that the carrier is constantly looking for opportunities, how to make its superdant flights "more tolerable" for passengers.
In March 2018, Qantas launched the first non-winning flight between Australia and the United Kingdom: Perth London. In the air, the plane is located more than 17 hours. According to Joyce, this flight is the first challenger on the four class layout of the cabin - the first class, business, economy and sleeping boxes.
Sleeping story
Beds in modern passenger liners can now be surprised only the one who sees the plane for the first time. Practically everyone large airlines Business class chairs laid out in full beds.
By the way, world civil Aviation actually started with sleeping places. For example, in the 30s of the last century, the flight from London in Singapore lasted eight days and expected more than 15 intermediate stops. Try to see all this time in the chair.
In the 50s, the Boeing-377 Stratocruiser model stood up for long flights, and there were also sleeping places there. In the 60s, when the era of jet liners began, the salons were divided into classes, but the beds could still be found in Boeing-707, and even in Soviet Tu-104 and Tu-114. These aircraft "Aeroflot" used, as a rule, on foreign flights. For example, in Tu-114 there were separate three-bedroom coupe, and passengers were given pillows and blankets.
In the 70s, the so-called "golden age of aviation" ended, and flights gradually began to turn into ordinary. Airlines began to think about lower costs, and aircraft manufacturing concerns - how to accommodate more man In the salon. Beds disappeared from passenger liners.
Now buy an economy class ticket can afford almost anyone, but since the 70s, nothing fundamentally new for passengers has not been presented.
There are airlines where the passengers of the first or business class can take advantage of the shower or sit in the bar. All recent developments mainly related to passengers of premium classes. The passenger econom did not receive anything new for many years. All he gets is a chair and an inserted monitor in the back, and sometimes the Internet. Therefore, the idea with the bedroom boxes is really interesting, even breakthrough. And it is not as utopian, like, for example, airplanes with glass floors or something like that, "said Alexey Sinitsky, the editor-in-chief of the portal IZ.RU.
By the way, the idea with re-equipment on the lower deck of sleeping places is not Nova. For example, at the same Airbus in A340-600 models there are special recreation rooms of crew members. They resemble capsule hotels that are currently at many airports in the world. There are same compartments in some Boeing-777 models.
Alexey Sinitsky is confident that sleeping places can be bought not on the whole flight.
Quickly evacuated from such boxes will be quite problematic, so all passengers will most likely be in the chairs at the time of takeoff and landing. But when the liner on the echelon - you can go down and relax, - he suggested.
And of course, there are not enough sleeping places on all passengers. For example, the same A330 holds more than 300 people - it is impossible to accommodate for all beds. Therefore, passengers will have to either buy a ticket for sleeping places when booking an ordinary ticket, or flight attendants will be able to sell these places during the flight.
I think many will agree on the 12-13-hour flight to get a couple of hours to lie down, stretch your legs, "Sinitsky is sure.