Is it a Ryan-air mattress?
Catching sleep at 30,000 feet might seem impossible. However, one enterprising Ryanair passenger has devised an unorthodox way to grab some shuteye in the sky despite cramped onboard conditions, as observed in a TikTok video with 2.7 million views.
The footage, filmed by another traveler seated behind the subject, pans to a man who has adopted a chair-like position, but his back is level on the floor, and his legs and socked feet are propped on his seat at a 90-degree angle.
His face, meanwhile, is under the seat in front of him where his carry-on bags would normally go, essentially recreating business-class legroom in economy.
The mile-high contortionist remained in the topsy-turvy sleeping pose for the entire three-hour flight, according to the caption, in which the uploader quipped, “This can happen only if you fly with Ryanair.”
The Post has reached out to Ryanair for comment.
The would-be napper’s inverted seating position divided commenters, with one joking, “He was probably the only comfortable person in the plane.”
“He might be onto something here,” admitted another fan.
“He probably has back pain,” said a third. “That’s pretty smart.”
However, others claimed that the flyer’s nap hack was “extremely dangerous,” not to mention unsanitary.
“On the back of his head is the place of thousands of toilet shoe bottoms,” said one critic, while another wrote, “Things that will never happen: me voluntarily touching an airplane floor with any skin.”
“Turbulence > Brain injury,” warned a third, while someone else quipped, ‘If the person in front farts, he’s done.’
In 2020, Taylor Garland, spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, warned that turbulence can turn an unfastened passenger into a “projectile.”
According to the Federal Aviation Administration, rough skies are the number one cause of injuries to passengers and crew members on commercial airlines.
Meanwhile, a total of 34 passengers and 129 crew members were seriously injured due to the phenomenon from 2009 to 2022, according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
In 2012, Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary controversially told the Telegraph that “seatbelts don’t matter” as they wouldn’t save passengers in the event of “a crash on an aircraft.”
Last year, a 73-year-old British traveler died after an aircraft plunged 6,000 feet during a bout of turbulence on a Singapore Airlines flight from London to Singapore.
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