The article I read this morning questioned how people would cope being in the same seat for 20 hours. I know you can get up and stretch your legs but hostess don't like that because it clutters up the alleyways and disturbs the orderly serving of meals and the frequent shots of alcohol some passengers need to deaden the stresses of the flight. There was an incident on a flight recently where a passenger complained that her personal space was being encroached upon by a passenger waiting to use the toilet. Which asks the question, 'How much space around you can you claim as your own?' And the answer is, not a lot.
Having rather long legs which don't bend very easily, I tend to book a bulkhead seat on longish flights knowing that the downside of that is I'll have to put up with sundry passengers loitering nearby for various purposes. Could I put up with that for twenty hours? I don't think so, but it may be that our days of long flights might be over, anyway and it's an academic question.
The final two paragraphs off this morning's article are worth recording:
When Singapore Airlines operated its earlier Singapore-Newark flights the airline had special lockers installed on the aircraft to store the corpses of any passengers who died en route. That was an 18-hour flight.
On a 20-hour marathon from east coast Australia to London, in an economy seat, death might be the smart choice.
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