A “flying cigar” may be the answer to quicker boarding times on airplanes in the future!

That, at least, is the vision of German designer Unur Ipek, who told the Daily Mail that “I thought, ‘how can we increase the flow when boarding a plane and make their less bustle and less queuing’, and the answer is to board in the middle into a wide aisle.”

He added that “… with a large, welcoming central point, this would solve that problem, and also people would find it much easier to locate their seats. In planes nowadays, as soon as someone stops to load a bag, it causes a chain, and the backlog takes time to shift.”