Picking up from a morning HOK LA’s kitchen coffee chat with Aneirin Owens, who was on the way travelling to Doha for NDIA project, we started talking about what an ideal long flight aircraft seating should be. As much as we both love the branding and high tech concept of Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic, we thought the new Upper Class Suite seating designed by Pearsonlloyd is arguably not too ideal.

Ideal for full body resting, but would you rather be facing the aisle with service and passenger traffic while you are sleeping?

When you are awake, would you rather facing the window look out for the view or facing the aisle for quick service?

The diagonal position in relation to the monitor definitely is not the best position for watching movie, would you rather have guests coming over to play chess with instead?