A bit late, but I read a financial story about fuel efficiency today and followed a link to this article:
Are MIT's "Double Bubble" Planes the Future of Air Travel?
The D8 "double-bubble" configuration, currently being developed by a research team at MIT in conjunction with NASA, is designed to maximize fuel efficiency. It's dual-aisle design not only doubles the plane's capacity (and carries more passengers per weight of fuel), it also widens the fuselage, which increases the plane's lift and allows for a smaller, nearly under-swept wing design.
A search on FT revealed nothing.
For an indepth thesis, see:
http://web.mit.edu/drela/Public/pape...A2011_3970.pdf