{"id":132429,"date":"2024-09-23T20:10:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airliners-with-aft-facing-seats-list\/"},"modified":"2024-09-23T20:10:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T10:10:12","slug":"why-are-aft-facing-seats-so-rare-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=132429","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Aft-Facing Seats So Rare Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aft-facing             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"121926\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/seats\/\"  >seats<\/a><\/span> are common in some modes of travel (like trains and limousines), but aircraft? A recent six-second         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032628\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thread\/how-do-you-feel-about-flying-on-an-aft-facing-seat\/\" >video by Jess Smith recently went viral<\/a><\/span> as she expressed her dismay after booking a first-row seat as a treat only to find it was an aft-facing seat. On the flight, she sat there watching the crowded all-economy cabin. While         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2010291\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-do-cabin-crew-sit-facing-rearwards\/\" >cabin crew routinely face backward<\/a><\/span>, passengers don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While aft-facing seating may be a little safer, they are generally quite unpopular with passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9668,13240,3086,13143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-seating","category-commercial-aviation","category-seat","category-seat-map"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132430,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132429\/revisions\/132430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}