[Daily Caller] Columbian budget airline VivaColombia renewed its call for "standing seats" in an attempt to reduce ever-increasing flying costs.
VivaColombia, which flies daily from Medellin to Miami, is the latest airline to express interest in vertical seating, The Telegraph reported Tuesday.
"There are people out there right now researching whether you can fly standing up," VivaColombia’s founder and CEO William Shaw said. "We’re very interested in anything that makes travel less expensive."
Airbus pioneered vertical seating in 2003, and in 2010, RyanAir toyed with the same idea, calling vertical seats "bar stools with seat belts."
The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said that seatbelts are necessary to keep passengers safe, adding that there would be many barriers to break before carriers could launch "stand-up" flights. |