Proposed Airline Seating Design has Passengers Facing one Another
In a patent filed by industry supplier Zodiac Seats France and announced Friday, the new seating design — named the Economy Class Cabin Hexagon — flips every middle seat around to face the two behind it. Airline commuters would thus face one another on budget flights if incorporated into single-aisled planes.
The designers claim in the patent application that flipping the seats around, and adding a theater-like fold-down feature, will increase the amount of room between them by 15 percent, “giving each passenger four more inches of available leg room.”
According to the document, passengers will also be given more shoulder space at the expense of the comfort of not staring strangers in the face.
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