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Airbus Patents Adjustable Seats, In-Seat Storage For Aircarft (consumerist.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer, has recently applied for a pair of airplane seat patents that simultaneously look to increase customer comfort while stripping away what little room remains. The first patent is for a "Re-Configurable Passenger Bench Seat," which allows seat belts and arm rests to be moved to accommodate different size passengers (e.g. two large adults, or two small adults and two small children in a row). The second patent places a storage box under each seat, which is accessed by raising the seat cushion. Of course, this means there wouldn't be room for your feet under the seat in front of you.
From the drawings it looks like they patented the back seat of my car and some Ikea furniture.
"Commercial air travel is the #1 industry in which the customer is routinely and perpetually FUCKED."
I've never been able to get that level of service from the cabin crew.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
In theory it should make things better for large passengers. Instead of buying two seats they could buy 1.5 seats, so two could sit together in a row normally seating three.
Of course getting people to pay more because of size opens up a whole can of worms. Would tall people pay more for extra leg room, or small people get a discount?
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Why not just give me an injection, knock me out, and stuff me in the cargo hold?
US Patent 56,885,322
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Okay, so our flight just landed and I'm siting near the back of the plane, not far from the galley door. As we are taxiing to the jetway the pilot gets on the PA and says something about the weather outside and where we can get our bags. We hear him hang up the mike but it's still active. The next thing we hear is the pilot saying to the co-pilot, "Man, what I could use right now is a hot coffee and a blow job." I see the stewardess in the galley go running to the flight deck door. I yell up to her as she passes, "Lady! You forgot the coffee!"
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