{"id":911,"date":"2013-04-25T05:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-04-25T05:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T05:59:41","slug":"qa-why-do-they-design-airplane-seats-this-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=911","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Why do they design airplane seats this way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;margin:5px;font-size:80%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"stupid design\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.staticflickr.com\/133\/321788002_e341cb0e2c_m.jpg\" width=\"160\"\/><br \/> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98251542@N00\/321788002\">StephanieBell: EmergingPhoto.ca<\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong><i>Question by Aida Renolds<\/i>: Why do they design airplane seats this way?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The head rest on airplane seats tilt downwards forcing you to hunch your neck and head forward &#8211; it&#8217;s sooo uncomfortable! Why don&#8217;t the head rests tilt back, or at least sit straight up and down. <\/p>\n<p>Head and neck cushions help a little, but why oh why do they design the chairs this way?!<\/p>\n<p>Both fun and serious answers are appreciated \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Answer by seasail<\/i><br \/>Yes that is annoying, maybe because when you lean the chair back the person behind you won&#8217;t fell like your head is in their face. Maybe they were designed for shorter people. I was on this flight once and the girl ahead of me reclined her chair all the way and I felt squashed the whole flight.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by StephanieBell: EmergingPhoto.ca Question by Aida Renolds: Why do they design airplane seats this way? The head rest on airplane seats tilt downwards forcing you to hunch your neck and head forward &#8211; it&#8217;s sooo uncomfortable! Why don&#8217;t the head rests tilt back, or at least sit straight up and down. Head and neck cushions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[378,11,2397,67,112],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-design","tag-airplane","tag-design","tag-seats","tag-they","tag-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}