Here’s a good way to make 98 people really uncomfortable on a flight: Have them stand.

OK, OK; they wouldn’t exactly stand. But they wouldn’t exactly sit, either. Airline seat manufacturer Aviointerior’s newly launched SkyRider line features “stand-up seats” with just a 23-inch pitch. Seat pitch is the measurement from the back of one seat in a row to the back of the seat in front of it, and it gives you an idea how much leg room you’ll have on a flight. Most of today’s airline seats have between a 28- and 32-inch pitch. (For a chart of airlines’ seat pitches, check out SeatGuru.com — pretty sweet information to have.)

There isn’t much seat to the Skyrider seat. From what I can tell from the pictures, a hump in the middle of the seat keeps you from sliding out of it onto the floor of the airplane (and potentially banging your forehead on the SkyRider in front of you in the process). The seat’s design is less like a chair and more like a “touring motor-scooter,” as the company’s press release puts it.

The idea behind these “seats” is simple: Cram more people onto flights. Passengers who can stand to SkyRide for a two- to four-hour flight get to pay less. In fact, if airlines put SkyRiders on their planes, we could see a whole new class of seats — for the frugal, the underpaid, the laid off, the folks who lost their homes to foreclosure. According to The New York Times, a Boeing 737 could be organized into three sections: 16 business class seats, 66 coach class seats and 98 SkyRiders. Ninety-eight SkyRiders! That’s a lot of super-cheap, cramped seats for poor bloggers like me.

What do you think? Does this sound like a good idea?

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