Double Decker Aeroplane Seats

[Neapolitan Ice Cream]

Set to make flying coach a living hell

 

[fla4fun]

Set to make flying coach a living hell

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I don’t know . . . Looks like a wider seat, so I might be willing to trade more horizontal space for less vertical space. However, I am average height and taller people might feel differently. Standard seats are getting way too narrow.

 

[NotUrsula]

I don't think any commercial airline (certainly not in the US) could ever adopt that. It would be impossible to safely and quickly evacuate those seats in darkness in the event of a catastrophic power failure, and the FAA would bar the design.

Designs like this are really academic exercises in envisioning what is structurally possible. Thing is, being structurally possible isn't enough; it's also got to be operationally sound, and this isn't.

BTW, the FAA just put the question of minimum seat width up for public comment. If you want change from US carriers, now is your chance to be heard (deadline to comment is Halloween): https://www.federalregister.gov/doc...essary-for-safety-of-air-passengers-emergency

 

[_19disnA]

Found it online as an idea first floated in 2020 from a company named Zephyr. Seems more like a design exercise and never really went anywhere. The shape of the airplane would be the big determining factor since that design wouldn't fit on current aircraft. The curvature of the aircraft hull limits the amount of usable space above you. Hard to tell from the computer generated image, but it actually seems like you could seat fewer passengers in a given space with that configuration.