This company plans to make standing-up airplane seats for short haul flights

Flying is not exactly a comfortable experience for most people. You're stuck in a narrow tunnel-like environment, the air is dry and so is the small talk you're forced to have with that pompous gentleman seated next to you.

Sadly, one company plans to add on to our misery by stripping away the one thing that keeps us sane during flights: The very basic human gesture of sitting down.

Digest that for a second.

Called the Skyrider 3.0, the seats are created by the Italian seat manufacturer, Aviointeriors. The leg-cramping seats were showcased at the recent Aircraft Interiors Expo 2019.

Travel standing like bus or Metro in an airplane? #Aviointeriors infamous ‘#standing #seats’ might make it possible!
https://t.co/VykmIPk9oD pic.twitter.com/LCGnD6DUtd — Financial Express (@FinancialXpress) April 4, 2019

Feeling uncomfortable yet? The seats are so upright, people would basically be standing during the entirety of their flights. It's pretty much the strap-hangers you see on commuter trains and buses.

As the name suggests, this is the third version of the Skyrider chair. Last year, at the same conference, Aviointeriors made headlines with the 2.0.

But the concept and idea behind the design remains unchanged, according to Gaetano Perugini, engineering adviser at Aviointeriors, who told CNN Travel.

"The message is, we do not want to put thousands of people in the cabin, we want to offer a multi-class configuration, which is nowadays impossible if you want to reach the maximum load of passengers."

Essentially, what Aviointeriors is hoping to achieve is to group all different classes - Economy, Premium Economy, Business - in the same cabin, which will help save space for more passengers to board one single flight.

Perugini acknowledged that the idea is unrealistic for long-haul flights. He's not wrong. Imagine boarding a 12 hour flight in this "seat" –– what a total nightmare.

Lots of airlines have enquired about the seats but none are planning to add them into their planes yet.

Will this idea take off? No one can say for certain.

Cover image sourced from SamChui.com and CNBC Indonesia.