The latest generation aircraft fly further than ever and airlines constantly adjust their products and offers to guarantee the comfort of passengers.
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Thus you could travel by plane in the future: the innovative design of this young Spanish seeks to increase the comfort of the economic class passengers with double -level aircraft
The Airbus A350 aircraft, for example, flew by 4 of the 10 longest routes in the world before the pandemic.He currently performs the longest flight in the world between New York and Singapore, operated by Singapore Airlines.
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But while passengers are accommodated in luxurious reclining seats to support long trips, flight assistants do not have that same luxury.
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Rather, they do not even remain in the passenger cabin for their breaks and retire to a hidden hiding place above the passengers.
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Discover where the flight assistants go when they need to rest aboard this Airbus A350-900XWB of SAS Scandinavian Airlines.
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At the posterior end of the plane is the rear kitchen, where drinks, food and other items are stored.
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However, just in front of the kitchen there is a small set of stairs that seems not to take anywhere.
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A door marked as "only for the crew" with a red symbol of hidden entry prohibition the upper compartment.
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If you open the door you will discover the crew rest area.
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It is a narrow space and you have to get used to getting up and down the stairs.
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The compartment is completely separated from the passenger cabin, so the crew cannot look at the passengers from above.
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Once inside, 6 Literas make up the crew rest zone.There is not much space for the head and it is necessary to bend down to move through the compartment.
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Each bunk has the essential, including a pillow, a blanket and a mattress.
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But beyond that, it doesn't have much more.While passengers have access to thousands of hours of entertainment on board, flight assistants do not.
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This is because these areas are designed only for rest.Flight assistants can choose to do other things, such as reading books or using the mobile, but that is not the goal.
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A personal reading lamp provides the only light in the bunk beds since, otherwise, the space is quite dark.
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Flight assistants can close the curtains to have intimacy and block light from the kitchen and the main entrance.
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The seat belts are installed so that they can sleep safely during turbulence or at any other time when the belt signal is on.
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There are smaller storage areas in the hall, in addition to an emergency exit that flight assistants can use if there are problems.
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There are also hangers available for the crew to hang its uniforms.
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The narrow halls remember more to a spacecraft than a plane.
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The crew rest is mandatory in long trips and flight assistants turn to serve passengers while others rest.
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The pilots have a separate rest area that is closer to the cabin, this resting area being only for the crew.
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The crew rest zone is connected with the lower cabin using an intercom.
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This space can become a second home for longer flights, such as New York to Singapore, which lasts 18 hours and 50 minutes.
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Meanwhile, passengers probably never realize that flight assistants are resting just a few meters above their heads.It is one of the best kept secrets of the plane.
But if a flight assistant disappears for a few hours, it is likely to go there.
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However, not all crew rest areas are so isolated.In smaller airplanes, the rest area can be a unique row in economic class, often the last row.
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Jetblue, for example, will fly to London in August and block one of the latest rows of the economic class so that their flight assistants rest on the paths.
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A business class seat has also been reserved for flight assistants on transatlantic flights to be used.
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So, although the current traveler will never know if flight assistants dream of sheep that fly, now he will have a better idea where they sleep.
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