No one wants the middle seat on airplanes
 

The article makes no sense. Put the middle seat back and lower so the passenger can reach the higher and more forward armrest? DO they expect the passengers to stick their arms straight out in front of them? What are they smoking?

Been around for years, appears no major airline has expressed any interest and I don't find that surprising
https://www.flyertalk.com/articles/i...ss-hassle.html 2015 article

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.

Front-to-back, not side-to-side, yes?

And I would think that the two pilot seats are made to far stronger specs than passenger seats. And are far heavier.

You seem to be making the point that side-to-side sliding seats exist somewhere in aviation. Fine by me.

This thread is about new seats for commercial aviation, for passengers, in three-across seating arrangements. MY point was that it's highly likely these seats couldn't certify because they originally were set up to be on side-to-side sliders, and that likely couldn't meet safety standards.

True- but they are much beefier than pax seats. Not saying sliders cannot work, just that A does not necessarily = B.

None of this matters, no airline has shown an ounce of interest in the concept. Almost anything can be built and certified, but if nobody wants it...

The only thing an airline wants is to make money, so they will keep the status quo. They would probably have switched to 4 across seating by now if our waistlines weren't going in the opposite direction.

Oh they'd stack us up like cordwood and load us onto pallets if they could!

I would'nt mind that as much, as least I would be able to afford a lie-flat on every flight.

They'd be better off ramping up the 'middle seat gets both armrests' marketing. There are too many selfish aisle and window PAX who think they are entitled to two.