Flying in economy is about to become even MORE uncomfortable

Source: www.thrillist.com

As if flying in economy wasn't already cramped enough...

Italian seating company Avio Interiors have unveiled the 'Skyrider 2.0,' at this year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg.

And it looks like an airline passengers worst nightmare...

Why? Because The Skyrider 2.0, has a 'reduced pitch,' which translated from airline speak means... It seats passengers in a more upright position, rather than sitting as normal.

The more upright seats would allow airlines to increase passenger numbers by up to 20 per cent, claims Avio Interiors, “allowing increasing profits for airline companies.”

Here's what they look like:

The seats themselves resemble a horse’s saddle more than a traditional chair, with a raised section in the middle – designed so that passengers put a leg either side and lean, rather than sit.

So basically, they're just there to lean up against.

It's unknown whether any airlines have put in an order for the Skyrider 2.0. which Avio Interiors claims is “the new frontier of low cost tickets and passenger experience.” 

Will it be long before we're all just standing up on short flights?

Well no... it might not. Seating like this has been in the making for sometime.

After Ryanair proposed something similar in 2010, when CEO Michael O’Leary said he could envisage standing areas that had “bar stools with seatbelts.”