Laughter at What 6.5-Foot Plane Passenger Does To Avoid Waking Neighbor Up

A video showing a tall woman hilariously contorting herself to avoid waking her sleeping seatmate has gone viral on TikTok .

Posted by user @anna_haak on July 30, the video has since amassed over 2.7 million views. The clip shows a woman—who is said to be around 6.5 feet tall —gingerly climbing over a fellow passenger who appears to be asleep in the aisle seat.

Text overlaid on the clip reads, "When you don't want to wake the person in the aisle seat," while the caption says: "and you're 2 meters [around 6.5 feet] tall."

While the scene played out as comedy online, it also pointed to a long-standing issue in air travel—the shrinking space in economy cabins ; and the health and comfort consequences for taller passengers .

A January 2019 study published in the International J