The statement: "All we ask of customers, wherever they are on our aircraft, is to observe standards that don’t cause offence to other customers and crew" is not saying no sex, just it should not offend.

Can we assume that the 1st class traveller's kit will now have a gag (as well as the traditional blindfold) to keep the noises down during turbulant activity?

If I were them, I’d be less worried about public decency and more worried about the cabin crew wiring the suites for sound/video and then wasting time perving - not to mention exposing the airline to considerable liability for invasion of privacy.

Would a wank be classed as sex? If so, I'd better watch myself next time.

But man, those female cabin crew are sweet.

...the plane hits a little turbulence and then enjoy the 'ride'. Might be a bit inconvenient if the 'fasten seatbelt' sign comes on mid way through though.

@William Allan

Hold on - that's a really good point. What are people meant to do if they're enjoying their double bed and the plane hits turbulence.

Are Singapore Airlines really fitting their beds with restraints?

Is there a growth market for transonic airborne dungeons?

> ....to suggest they call it Virgin Airlines

You? :o)

"French design at its best

By Anton Ivanov

Posted Thursday 1st November 2007 11:52 GMT

Double bed, personal cabin and no noise proofing...

Somehow I do not think we would ever see that being shipped by Boeing..."

One must be pretty stupid, like in "watching-fox-propaganda-on-surrendering-monkeys-stupid", to utter such crap.

First point is, obviously Boeing was actually not able to deliver a plane that could support suites, so they would in any case be unable to do the mistake.

Second, A380 is not french but franco-germano-something, just like Airbus is far from being simply a french company (and I might even add thanks for that fact as it would not be so successful if french only). I guess it makes it easier for you to live with your prejudice though, so go ahead (until the time you realize Airbus is actually a great company, that day it will at the very least become suddenly at the very least german in your mind, or even american somehow).

Third is, Airbus has actually not much to do with noise-proofing the A380, for the very simple reason that each airline asks of outside companies the equipment to fill the plane (for instance Zodiac is contracted by the airlines themselves to do the seats for the vast majority of planes).

As a consequence, whether perfect or completely crappy, the actual way the suites are handled has nothing to do with Airbus, much less with the french.

Please turn Fox News on again instead of posting, it will people a service.

Okay, I was speed-reading so somebody tell me where - in this story - at says that Singapore Airlines asked people to not have sex.

I saw where it said that they'd like people to refrain from indulging in behavior likely to embarass.

Were I to read that, I'd take it as an okay to have sex but to not involve the dog, not scream (repeatedly), "Yes! Yes! Take me now you horned god!" and not enjoy my pre-sex warm up of doing naked press-ups in the corridor outside my cabin.

Not that I would ever do any of those anyway.

Quite a gaping hole in the specification, I can't imagine the designers of the SAL cabin thought that one through too well. If I were them I'd try and get the spec changed for the aircraft that are currently being built. It's not something they're going to stop now, is it?

As a plane nerd, I can tell you that there are 12 *single* suites on the SA A380s, four on each side and four in the middle. The pairs in the middle can have the dividing partition removed to form a double. So there's only two double "cabins" on board.

...in the mile high club is quite hard unfortunately...but do private jets count? No longer so expensive to hire one ;-)

"But then again your probably French"

His probably French ... what?

... Its British.

Strange -- I read Anton's comments as being rather flattering regarding French and their love of love-making. I thought it was the Septics and their prudish nature he was having a dig at.

Perhaps you have a chip on your shoulder? Or should that be a pomme-fritte?

For the record, I'm a stiff-upper-lipped, sexually-repressed Rosbif.

Your first screwing will be at the ticket office!

How would they know ...Unless you appear in the morning with your face looking like a glazed doughnut!