The next time you are on airplane and flying economy class or coach, you might find yourself on standing “seats”.

This might happen since the airlines trying to fit together more passengers for each flights, citing the even increasing fuel costs as one of the reason.

The low cost airlines might come first, specially for its short-haul routes.

New York Time’s article, “One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand” also mentioned two Japanese Airlines that might be interested in using this new seating arrangement for its short haul, island hopping routes: All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines.

The rest of Asian low cost airlines might not too far behind.

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CNN reported about study conducted by AC Nielsen, Visa and PATA (Pacific Asia Travel Association), with respondents interviewed between March 20 and 30 in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Sweden, Britain and the United States.

The study indicated that more people are willing to travel to Asia region compare with a year ago, when news about Terorrist Attacks, Tsunami and Bird Flu were in the news.

Some points from the study:

• 43% of survey respondents said they were considering Asian vacations this year [last year: 34%]
• 1 in 5 respondents is misinformed about locations where terrorist attacks have occurred
• 1 in 5 believed there was bird flu in areas with no reported cases
• 18% of respondents said China, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Singapore were “severely” or “somewhat affected” by the tsunami, even though these areas were not hit by the December 2004 disaster
• 78% respondents believe Thailand was still affected or severely affected by the tsunami, even though the disaster only affected a handful of destinations there.

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