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.
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.
Why not. As long as it isn’t a safety issue, sounds like fun. Live a little, folks. Experience joy.
Please, no.
Tim Dunn has been vindicated!!
United Airlines should supply both the complimentary in-flight blanket and the plastic hair clips.
Creative! Very resourceful.
1A in Polaris has a rail for a curtain they use often when its designated for pilot rest
I like it!
Should be mandatory on Atlanta to Tokyo routes.
So long as you aren’t in the way of other passengers or crew and you can get in and out easily I don’t see a problem with it.
Too bad it’s not going to block all the light.
Lowest of low clsss trash
Trash. Money doesn’t buy class
Such an antisocial society we have become. Everyone is on their screens and in their silos. Sad.
Tacky. A flying refugee camp. Next time I fly, I think I’ll strip down to my underwear and walk around. Do what you want so long as it’s not a safety issue, right?!
@David zread @Bill — Really? This is trash? You mean to say, that *this* is the ‘lowest of low’… Welp, that is ‘great news’ for actual war criminals. Someone, quick!, exhume the body of Leopold II of Belgium and let him know that what he did to the people in the Congo is now simply ‘not that bad,’ because some random guy on internet proclaimed that some other folks in 2025 making ‘mini-forts’ with sheets on airplanes was the actual bottom of all humanity. Lowest of the low. Bah!
@Stef — So are you, sir. Nothing wrong with using your computer, smartphone, now and again. Try using technology as a tool to enhance your life, not diminish it. Maybe call your family sometime. Plenty of us live ‘social’ lives and still use technology. Shocking. It is possible, you know…
Perhaps this passenger was pro-actively avoiding being exposed to some Global Service passenger’s penis on display?