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Last month, Airbus filed a patent for a new kind of airline seat, called a “seating device comprising a forward-foldable backrest.” A bicycle-like seat to squeeze in more passengers per plane. Its cushions are shaped liked bicycle saddles, and when the seats aren't being used, they fold vertically to save space. The backrest will be a tiny lumbar support. No more tray, which you don’t need because they don’t serve meals on planes anyway.
Airbus openly acknowledges that packing more passengers on board is going to result in reduced comfort, and that the goal is basically to figure out how far they can go without inciting an airborne revolt.
"Reduced comfort remains tolerable for the passengers in as much as the flight lasts only one or a few hours," Airbus sagely calculates, before going on to explain why reducing leg room provides diminishing returns:
"This second solution has also been pursued hitherto," the patent application reads, "and it is difficult to continue to further reduce this distance between the seats because of the increase in the average size of the passengers."+ More >> |
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