We dont like the dry air. We dont like the food (and we especially dont like it when it runs out, and we dont get to choose). We dont like the grubby toilets. We dont like queueing to get on (or off). We dont like the planes roar as were trying to sleep. We dont like having to fight for the overhead cabins. We dont like the intermittent wifi. We dont like the bumps of unexpected turbulence. We dont like the chairs. We definitely dont like how much all this ignominy and discomfort costs.

All told, we mostly just dont like flying. And we especially dont like it in cattle class, elbow-to-elbow, fighting for every inch of armrest or glint of sunlight.

But there are technological fixes for almost all of these micro-irritations. And though not all of them make economic sense for us schlubs at the back, a significant number are likely to be rolled out cabin-wide in the years to come. Some will be so slight that we scarcely notice them; others, like functional wi-fi, will be as transformative as the in-flight entertainment systems we now dismiss as commonplace.

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The technology behind the airplane cabins of the future - Quartz