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Travellers' Checks | Personal plane seat covers – could they feature in the ‘new normal’ of flying?
- A number of companies are selling reusable and disposable seat covers, with face masks and wipes thrown in for good measure
- Plus, remembering the Junkers G.38, in which passengers sat in the wings of the aircraft looking ahead
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Six months ago, anyone boarding a plane and fitting their own seat cover would have likely been looked at with amusement by most fellow passengers and cabin crew. Once commercial aviation gets going again, though, such accoutrements might well become common.
Products such as Seat Sitters – a combination pack of reusable seat cover, tray table cover, face mask, wipes and hand sanitiser – did raise a few eyebrows online when first released a couple of years ago at seatsitters.com, but probably not so much any more. Likewise the reusable fabric and disposable covers at germfreebee.com, which became one of the earliest plane-seat cover brands when it launched back in 2014.
Debuting at the Travel Goods Show, in New Orleans, in the United States, in March, Fresh Flight’s disposable seat covers were the first to mention the coronavirus in their marketing, playing up passengers’ need for “a protective barrier between them and the germs, bacteria and filth found on airplane seats”. Priced at US$8.99 for a single seat cover, or US$9.99 with an additional wipe and face mask, they can be found at flyfreshflight.com.
Note that airmail from the US is currently slow, if available at all, but surface mail will probably arrive before commercial flights resume from Chek Lap Kok anyway.
Remembering the Junkers G.38, once the largest land plane in the world
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