If rear- facing seats are safer, whay has no airline decided to "go it alone" and fit them?

Question

can you suggest reasons?

Answer 1

Because everyone would vomit when taking off and landing from vertigo.

Answer 2

People would fear the change.

Yes it's much safer.

People would think the airline has a poor safety record.

$ rules the world.

Answer 3

Imagine half-hanging on a safety belt during a take-off....

All the astronauts/cosmonauts/taikonauts are sitting in front facing seats, although they're actually not steering a spacecraft. It's because that way a human body copes better with G forces. There was only one spaceflight planned with "eye-balls out" phase - a Venus fly-by in the late '60s / early '70s. It never took place.

Answer 4

Because passengers have a choice, and most of them would chose NOT to fly on an airplane if they had to sit "backwards" for the whole flight. Why make passengers uncomfortable, and cause a potential loss of revenue for the airline just to add a fraction of a percentage point of improved safety.

Answer 5

having flown overseas on an Air Force C-5 aircraft, which has rear facing seats, the flight is odd.  its just uncomfortable to fly like that.

it is safer, but even i would sacrifice that safety for comfort

Answer 6

Having ridden in a plane with rear facing seats, i can tell you it takes a little getting used too. The problem with them is that the human body is not used to moving backwards at take-off speeds. If airlines started using planes that have backwards facing seats, a lot of people would suffer from nausea and vertigo.

Answer 7

Hitting the earth in a aluminum cone at 600 MPH....it just wouldn't make any difference.

Answer 8

Money and they are cheap, the cost would interrupt their profits.