United Business Class Passenger Uses Hair Clips And Blanket To Build DIY Suite Doors For Privacy

A customer captured a United Airlines business class passenger’s impatience with the airline for not rolling out a new seat with doors. The passenger created their own makeshift suite, using a blanket clipped to the top of the seat. Kobus originally posted what he saw inflight to the public Facebook group United Airlines.

Homemade Polaris Suite seen on Facebook
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Creating an inflight blanket fort is a new use for plastic hair clips. This passenger, though, envisions a world where United Airlines brings back true international first class and competes with Air France, which uses curtains on their suite instead of doors.

Last year crew on Brazil’s Gol did the same thing, using blankets to create their own suite for rest. And we’ve seen passengers do the same thing.

Crew rest area of a 737.
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Fortunately United Airlines is expected to reveal their new business class suites with doors in a couple of weeks, and they’ll debut on the airline’s new delivery Boeing 787-9 aircraft. There will be 64 business class seats on these premium-heavy planes. Passengers will no longer have to make their own doors once onboard.

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Comments

  1. Why not. As long as it isn’t a safety issue, sounds like fun. Live a little, folks. Experience joy.

  2. United Airlines should supply both the complimentary in-flight blanket and the plastic hair clips.

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