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Old Jul 18, 2019, 9:46 pm
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Originally Posted by DenverBrian
Um, the standard seat is 17 inches, not 18, on most single aisle Boeings; and if they take "three to five inches" from the window and aisle seats, then those seats are now 15 or 16 inches wide.

None of this makes sense.

Looks like they've also abandoned the original idea of having the aisle seat slide in to widen the aisle at disembarking. I'm sure that was part of the reason why it's taken over four years to certify - there's no way they would be structurally stiff enough for crashes if they were on sliders.
Every pilot and copilot seat on commercial and private aircraft is on sliders.
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