Look, we know there’s that great Louis CK rant about people who bitch about air travel. You know the one.
But seriously, flying sucks. It’s hot, cramped, there’s too many people, it’s a sardine tin of farts travelling at terrifying speeds, and if you happen to be over 6 feet high it’s a back-exploder.
And aircraft manufacturers are on a seemingly never-ending quest to make economy air travel even less pleasant by squeezing as much out of the minute amount of space they have to work with.
Airbus may have stumbled on to the worst of the lot.
The manufacturing giant has filed a patent application for a hellish plane seating arrangement that calls for passengers to literally be stacked on top of each other.
The patent contains plans for passengers to be seated on seats placed above a middle row of seat – presumably in the space currently occupied by overhead bins.
The one benefit to the design is that the seats are designed to fold flat, meaning economy class travellers could extend to a full recline – in an age where leg room is at a premium, that’s a solid selling point.
But it doesn’t change the fact that the lower level people are pretty much getting a face full of butts.
‘Course it’s only a patent application at this stage, and airlines do this kind of thing with shocking frequency. But even still, just the thought of it all is enough to give you the willies.
via CN Traveler.
