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Etihad’s A380 sit-down bar area. seth jaworski
Third places
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Inflight lounge areas come full circle
Sociologist Roy Oldenburg’s 1991 book The Great Good Place defines the concept of the third place: in contrast to the changing way that we use our homes and workplaces, they are spaces in which we relax with family, friends or work colleagues.
In modern society, Oldenburg writes, “most needed are those ‘third places’ which lend a public balance to the increased privatisation of home life. Third places are nothing more than informal public gathering places. The phrase ‘third places’ derives from considering our homes to be the ‘first’ places in our lives, and our work places the ‘second’. ” And so to the modern aircraft. If there were ever a space in which a third place were useful, this is it. Airlines have realised that since the golden age of flying boat travel, and the flying lounges of the early widebody era reinforced the desire.
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