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Simple Geometry = More Seats In an Airline
New submitter innerpeace writes: New airline seat arrangement looks to increase passenger capacity. A patent application by Zodiac Seats France calls for a design that puts every other passenger in a row facing backward. That means that in a row of three fliers, the seat by the window and the seat by the aisle face toward the front of the plane while the middle seat faces toward the back. The design idea could fit up to 80 more passengers in a plane, depending on the current seat layout. Whatever downsides it has, if such a design is adopted, I hope it leads to a stronger adoption of a convention that those with window seats board first.
It isn't about getting more seats in a plane
Yeah. Yeah it is. This is why you have seating arrangements designed for the average hypermetabolic midget ectomorph who can exhale, suck it in and hold it for the duration of the flight.
And, if you happen to be a normal sized person or a non-ectomorph body type, or carrying any extra weight at all, said planes are sardine cans where you're expected to die of asphyxiation.
And that's BEFORE the person in front of you reclines their seat and crushes you.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
... you missed the bit where I said this wasn't an original idea. Several aeronautical engineers have drawn up blue prints for just this sort of thing.
So... you can take your presumptions and pretensions and shove them up your anus sideways.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
As a guy with very broad shoulders I say: Bring it on!
On planes I prefer aisle seats because that way I don't have to constrict myself in order not to disturb fellow passengers. For me one shoulder in the aisle is the way to travel. Every now and a trolley bangs into me. But so what.
Still I wonder how this is ever going to work gracefully.
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
And why aren't there baby seats - it can't be safe to be on the lap in the event of a crash... it's like they want babies to die.