Singapore Airlines Offering Luxury Beds For Only 8.5 Million

(CNN) — It's been nearly 38 years since Philippine Airlines unveiled the first fully flat bed on a commercial jet in the shape of slim, bunk-style "Skybeds" on the first class upper deck of its Boeing 747.

That luxury was short-lived, and airlines mostly spent the ensuing decades plotting ways to stuff more and more passengers onto their planes, no matter the class.

Luckily trends change, and the past few years has seen a resurgence in airlines providing for personal space, privacy, and -- yes -- a quality rest.

Singapore Airlines has now revealed the latest luxury sleeps in the sky, thanks to an investment of $850 million dollars in its aircraft interiors, bringing about "Suites" that look more like hotel rooms, and business class seats that convert to double beds.

Full article here.

8.5 million for a bed? I would spend it in a second. In fact, that’s the easiest spending decision I’ve ever made in my life. Do you know how much more pleasant air travel would be if you could had a bed? Stick me in a stiff seat with just enough room to wiggle my toes, and three hours will feel like thirty. But put me in a bed where I can nap or eat cheezits off my chest? I’ll crush a twelve hour flight no problem! Good luck getting me off the plane if I’m in my REM cycle! I may just go back and forth, back and forth. This flight’s going to Minnesota next? Works for me if it means I get to finish my nap. I mean just getting to the fucking airport and making it through security without saying “bomb” is enough to knock you out for a few.  So call it a scam, but I’ll call it money well spent. Say it’s worth it to just suck it up, and I'll say take that cattle car and make it an Embassy Suites.