Wired: New airplane seating proposal
Jul 14, 2015, 8:32 am
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This article on USA Today has a rendering, and it only gets worse.
If the rendering is accurate to the actual concept, the seats flip up like movie theater seats (or toilet seats, read into that what you will), and have no arm rests. They're also so tightly packed as to be even worse for evac safety than the sardine-cans that are currently being foisted upon us.
I certainly hope no airline ever even considers such a configuration. It would be accepted by many travelers, I'm sure, but I'll personally never set foot on a plane with such a layout.
If the rendering is accurate to the actual concept, the seats flip up like movie theater seats (or toilet seats, read into that what you will), and have no arm rests. They're also so tightly packed as to be even worse for evac safety than the sardine-cans that are currently being foisted upon us.
I certainly hope no airline ever even considers such a configuration. It would be accepted by many travelers, I'm sure, but I'll personally never set foot on a plane with such a layout.
Jul 14, 2015, 10:36 am
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This article on USA Today has a rendering, and it only gets worse.
If the rendering is accurate to the actual concept, the seats flip up like movie theater seats (or toilet seats, read into that what you will), and have no arm rests. They're also so tightly packed as to be even worse for evac safety than the sardine-cans that are currently being foisted upon us.
I certainly hope no airline ever even considers such a configuration. It would be accepted by many travelers, I'm sure, but I'll personally never set foot on a plane with such a layout.
If the rendering is accurate to the actual concept, the seats flip up like movie theater seats (or toilet seats, read into that what you will), and have no arm rests. They're also so tightly packed as to be even worse for evac safety than the sardine-cans that are currently being foisted upon us.
I certainly hope no airline ever even considers such a configuration. It would be accepted by many travelers, I'm sure, but I'll personally never set foot on a plane with such a layout.
I also got a chuckle from the last two, the overhead food conveyor belt, and the one that has the double-decker feel with little passenger cabins on top of each other. It actually looks like that could be kinda neat, a la some of the J suites on international carriers. Of course, if airlines every adopted that one, we all know they'd shrink seat pitch to ~30 inches, and probably cap headroom. Shoot, they could make some of them 6 inches taller and sell them as "premium economy, for a less claustrophobic feel."