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Sleep Tight on Air New Zealand

Unless you're lucky enough to live "next door" in Australia, any flight to New Zealand is a pretty long one, especially if you're sitting in economy. Air New Zealand is considering some kind of pod capsules to replace seats on overnight long-haul flights (think a flying Yotel); at the moment it's completely only at the ideas stage, but might follow a design that Lufthansa's been considering:

One concept showed berths stacked three-high in a herringbone layout along the sides, and another row stacked down the middle of the cabin.

Naturally eating in a pod would be messy so Air NZ said they would then feed passengers at the airport and then let them sleep as soon as they were on board. It does sound kind of attractive, but we're talking some years of development first, so don't go rushing to book your Air NZ sleeper pod just yet.

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