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You already understand how painfully uncomfortable it is in a narrow-body airliner during a long flight in coach or business class seats. If you don’t feel packed like sardines you will feel as if you are in cattle car being transported where you don’t want to go.
What are your choices like anyway? If you don’t want to read a book you might try watching a movie. Taking a nap is one option. You could listen to music or if you get real lucky you might find someone interesting to talk to- for seven hours.
I always enjoy reading a book. The challenge however is packing a book worth reading and lugging it through the airport and through baggage claims and onto the plane.
You hope to have enough energy left for reading. And then there is the matter of carrying it outright or having to take it in and out of your carry on bag.
But Wait- There’s more!
There is a solution to the dilemma! My proposal is for airliners to install Kindle Readers into the seat backs of the airliners. If they are preloaded with ebooks they could charge two or three dollars for turning them on.
It could be loaded with the entire New York Times best-sellers list as well as the Classics and the Business Titles.
Every pound of baggage adds to the cost of fuel for the airlines. They would save money from the fact that people would no longer have to carry their own books and magazines. This is especially true on domestic non-stop flights in the US and the longer over seas flights also.
In addition to this, further money could be saved by the airlines if they removed a half inch of space from between seat rows. This would allow for the addition of one extra row of seats to be added in the back. If that is done for a narrow body airplane it would account for an additional four to six seats. This would allow for that many more paying customers per flight.
That translates into the airlines making additional money. This is something they already are considering in order to stay in operation. This is especially true in the face of rising fuel costs, labor disputes and the high costs of health care. Then there is the need to invest in the “ultra-composite” airplanes of the future. This may be an option for first class as well to remove some inches from between their rows and create additional seats.
It is sensible for the airline companies to contract with businesses such as Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Nobel and Borders. This is a situation where everyone wins. The fast reading frequent passengers who don’t want to lug books around with them will benefit the most.
These backseat ebook readers installed on aircraft could be a public service bulletin board used in emergencies to pass instructions and information on to the passengers. They could be available for passengers to look up maps and flight information concerning their destinations.
Passengers could see the lay-out of the airport, book reservations or hail a cab. Revenue from advertising could be earned further increasing the income for the airlines and facilitating the customer.
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