Maybe these stories go together, as in what’s described in one might reduce what’s described in the other…
From jolly old Ryanair: The London Daily Mail reports that the Ireland-based Sam’s Club of the Skies will offer the equivalent of standing/bar stool-type seats if regulatory agencies will allow them. Seems they got this brilliant idea from a Chinese airline. Yikes. I do enjoy standing on long flights though. When I first saw the headline I feared that Ryan, who have floated the idea of pay-to-pee on their planes, was going to make all the toilets standing only.
And…standing might reduce this nasty bit of bad news: Reuters reports that people who spend a lot of time traveling - by car or plane - have the triple the risk of sustaining dangerous blood clots with the risk rising significantly for every two hours the traveler is constrained. This makes Ryanair’s scheme look better already. My small bladder insures that my legs get lots of stretching on those long flights. See, it is important to drink lots of fluids on the plane.