There are a lot of reasons to love Singapore Airline’s Spacebed, which the carrier has just finished installing on all intercontinental flights in Raffles (Business) Class and which I just experienced on the LASingapore route. The one touch, seat-to-bed conversion button takes you smoothly from upright to prone in 20 seconds. The 6'6" length at full extension easily accommodates a tall passenger like me. For the first time I was able to stretch out full-length without finding that the soles of my feet were pushing down against the footboard. But perhaps the best thing about the seat is the 27-inch width, which was designed, according to Singapore public relations director James Boyd, to accommodate combination sleepers—people who turn from side to side as well as sleep on their back and stomach. In a conventional Business Class cradle seat, turning from one side to the other is as laborious as making a threepoint turn in an alley. Other nice design touches include cubbyholes on the seatback in front for an eyeglass case or similar sized personal item; a cubbyhole down below for shoes; and a padded grab-bar across the top back portion of each seat. It gives you the leverage to step smoothly over the adjacent seat without yanking the seatback in front of you. Why didn’t anyone think of that before?