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Although commercial air travel has been all but arrested because of the coronavirus pandemic, many travelers dream of the day, they can fly the friendly sky once more. But the virus has created a little anxiety anxiety in potential passengers who fear to capture the germs of their centuries in a cramp cabin. As such, designers evoke all kinds of ideas for new airplane seats that would offer the most privacy passengers - and therefore the most protection possible.

The idea of ​​separate seats inplanes NOVEL is not at least not in the business class, anyway. Passengers are currently paying a premium for private space as possible, with frequent flyers renting suite style options that look more like cells than they are airplane seats. Although the suites will certainly continue their dominance in business class cabins on long-haul aircraft, they are unfortunately unrealistic in the economy.

Thus, designers develop different solutions at the back of the bus. Italian Studio AviooInteriors, for example, imagined the Janus radical seat, named for the Roman God with two facets that inspired its form. Offer passengers a maximum protection of their neighbors,The average seats face backAnd each individual seat is registered in a transparent shield. The passengers traveling together then sit down to face a diagonal rather than the other. AviooInteriors also designed the less bulky glass product, hastransparent hood which is designed to adapt existing aircraft seats.

Another idea in the works is the isolat kit by u.k.-based board funds. It implies aRemovable partition to install on the middle seat an economic row. In fact, this design could be attractive to airlines such as Delta, which temporarily ceased to sell average seats to help social distance on board.

"With the good partners-Airlines, the certification teams, the manufacturers - we think it could be available in three or four months," said FactoryDesign Directorrock.

It is a very optimistic chronology which, as the Tennel points out, requires extreme cooperation. However, some experts do not believe that the estimate is completely realistic. "Airlines can not just add partitions or something to the cab without first getting a prototype to test and be approved by the FAA," saysBobby laurie, co-host of travel discussion showTHE JET SET and an oldFlight attendant.

Laurie also notes that there should be extensive tests so that the seats do not prevent the evacuation of passengers in case of emergency. "Partitions or adding should be written in the aircraft manuals, including the emergency manual of the dashboard, before being able to be installed," says Laurie. "Each airline should go through this process individually: it would not be a general approval."

As everything is said and done, there is a strong song that the worst of the pandemic could have been passed, and air transport could go back slowly to normal.

As it turns out, the scores could not do a lot of good in preventing the spread of viruses. If a person who has eternates coronavirus, these particles disperse in a bubble, which could float around a partition.

"The droplets can go anywhere, thus making the partitions inefficient," declares the onboard agentKelly Lacy. It is more efficient, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA), to simply decide thatPassengers and crew wear face masks To prevent droplets from entering air into the air, a rule, the main airlines have already been enforced, to implement social distancing on board.

On top of that, while planes are known to haveSurfaces quite dirty throughout the cabin, their air filtration systems are tied with those of hospitals. As medical centers, the majority of the plans are equipped with high-efficiency filters (HEPA) with 99% of the air microbes, including coronavirus. The air in an airplane cabin is crossed in the filtration system wherever20 to 30 times per hourand recycled air is mixed with 50% fresh air to produce even higher air quality. As a result, chances are low enough that you will take a virus by simply breathing in the air in an airplane - you are much more likely to have a contaminated surface, which seat partitions would not necessarily prevent.

This does not mean that we will not see any modification of the cabin design. "The isolate can have a value of a post-covidae, especially in cabins such as the business class of the economy more or the belt," said ten. On many international airlines, the business class on short-court aircraft is simply standard economic seats with the average seat left open to give more space passengers. The isolat kit could easily work well in such a scenario. But a complete redesign of the cabin economy for social distancing induced by the pandemic? Maybe when pigs fly. And for more means, the trip could change, consult the 13 things you can never see about planes again after coronavirus .