In May 2025, the media and Telegram channels spread reports on innovation, which airlines plan to implement next year. We checked the reliability of such publications.

Information that Lawkostra already in 2026 plan to increase the capacity of their aircraft by 20% due to the introduction of a new type of armchairs, in which the passenger is more likely to be, with reference to the British Daily Mail newspaper. “The new Skyrider 2.0 seats are similar to the saddle and are designed for short flights up to two hours,” the messages said. Notes on this topic released RBC, "Poster Daily","Finance Mail.ru","Around the world" And UNIAN, and posts about the upcoming innovation appeared in Telegram channels "Live broadcast • News"(736,000 views at the time of writing this analysis),"Insider UA"(461 000),"Dual"(256 000),"Zerada"(224,000)"Zlaya Pruf"(212 000),"Dobrodvach"(212 000), Nexta Live (191 000), "Moscow today"(189 000),"Bloody lady"(167 00) and others.

The article referred to by the media and Telegram channels Published May 21 in the British tabloid Daily Mail. It refers to the concept of standing Skyrider Airlines, which has been being developed by the Italian company for 15 years Aviointeriors.

The very idea of vertical seats for aircraft has been discussed since the beginning of the 2000s. In 2006, The New York Times I wrotethat, according to her, Airbus has been offering an “standing salon” of Asian carriers for some time, but none of them showed interest in such innovation and the project was never implemented. A few years later, the idea of standing seats on the plane, the general director of Ryanair Michael O'LIRI, caught fire. In 2010, he Share With the press plans to equip the sides of the low -cost airline with ten rows of standing places. Tickets for them, according to his plans, were supposed to cost within € 10.

In the same year, the public was represented The first concept of chairs Skyrider. The model was like a riding saddle - the creators remindedWhat cowboys spend eight hours a day in the saddle, which means that passengers will be able to carry out a short flight in such an armchair without much discomfort. Aviointeriors later continued to improve the idea. In 2018, at the Aircraft Interiors Expo exhibition in Hamburg, she introduced the updated version - Skyrider 2.0. It was about her that was discussed in the encouraged article by the Daily Mail.

The text said that Skyrider chairs now meet regulatory requirements, have passed security assessment and already in 2026 budgetary airlines will begin to sell tickets for standing places. At the same time, the author of the article did not indicate the source of this information and did not call the airlines that they plan to equip the Skyrider seats, only hinted that it could be Ryanair, quoting O'Liri's old statements. However, a low -cost airline Refuted Similar assumptions. Aviointeriors also Published In their social networks, a refutation: “Skyrider, which is often mistaken for a chair ready to install, is actually a conceptual prototype created back in 2012. It was a bold attempt to answer one of the most acute problems of the aviation industry - how to use the space as efficiently as possible and preserve ergonomics. But it is not worth perceiving it literally: he was conceived as a provocative example of designer innovations, challenging the ideas about how the air travel in the future can become. At the moment, Skyrider is not included in the official assortment of the company. ”

In addition, aviation experts They doubt itthat standing places in principle can ever appear on airplanes, since they do not meet the standards European Aviation Security Agency (EASA) and Federal Aviation Administration of the United States (FAA). According to their requirements, each passenger who has reached the age of two should be provided with a separate seat equipped with a seat belt, and in the event of an emergency, all passengers must be evacuated within 90 seconds. This will be impossible if the number of people on board increases, and the width of the aisles and the number of doors in the plane will remain the same.

Thus, the encircled news talks about the long-existing design prototype of vertical aircraft chairs, which have not yet been launched into production. Aviointeriors, which created these seats, officially denied the information that they would appear on airplanes next year.

Photo on the cover: screenshot Daily Mail