ABSTRACT
Being a comfort nerd, I asked the airline passenger seated next to me on a recent ™ight how comfortable he was after sitting for four hours in the economy seat. He answered, “After desperate attempts to check in online, I had to line up 30 minutes for check-in and 15 minutes for security. Four hours in this airplane is terrible. There is no information on where we are in space, no free meal, no free water, no blanket, no pillow, no movies, no games, and no radio. Did you speak to one of the four air hostesses who all seem to have forgotten their course on ‘being friendly’? The four hours in the narrow space seemed like an eternity, and my body (especially knees and shoulders) are protesting.”
