It can be tough to get comfortable on a long flight in economy. Airlines sell flat bed seats for thousands of dollars, but in back you’re on your own to get creative.
One passenger managed his own lie flat experience, even though he was flying in the back cabin. The man was assigned to a window seat, the middle seat wasn’t taken, and he laid down on the floor of the cabin and stretched out to go to sleep. He “kept bumping” the feet of the passenger in the aisle.
I flew on Turkish Air last night (I’m star alliance gold and wanted a direct) and woke up in the middle of the night to something touching my feet. Turns out the man in the window laid down on the floor and it was in fact his feet that kept bumping my feet!! Curious if others would have grabbed an FA or just let it go.
Laying on the gross floor of an aircraft seems disgusting. Maybe at least lay down a blanket? And maybe I could see this for a six year old, but not for a grown man. Hardly seems more comfortable than sleeping in the seat, to be honest.
And this is actually a safety hazard, because turbulence can come on when you don’t expect it. Anything not belted down may go flying.
Aftermath of major turbulence on AC19 today
byu/HefetzHashud inaircanada
As a kid I used to love flights with empty rows where I could spread out and sleep on a long haul. But that involved spreading out across empty seats not on the floor!
I never flew in a premium cabin until I graduated college, went to work, and became a frequent flyer. My early experiences to Australia were in the back of the aircraft. But a full middle row on an American Airlines DC-10 did the trick!
Sometimes passengers are stuck with the floor (or the lav) because they don’t have seats. In 2017, Pakistan International Airways gave 7 passengers on a Boeing 777 handwritten boarding passes to stand in the aisle of a 1,700 mile flight from Karachi to Medina. And in 2019, a British family had to sit on the floor of a TUI flight from Mahon, Spain to Birmingham when the carrier swapped planes for an aircraft that didn’t have their row.
But I cannot imagine choosing to lay down on the floor of a passenger aircraft.
Laying on the floor is a safety issue. The flight attendants should have intervened.
@George N Romey — Good call, for once, sir.