6'4" Gabriel should love this idea.
If you've ever wondered who to curse about that parsimonious economy class seat digging into your kidneys, the culprit may very well be an Italian company known as Avio Interiors. They are a world leader in the airliner seat industry. They're also a serious company employing serious professionals and spending serious money on product design.
And yet, they've come up with this thing:
A 'perching saddle' design that they claim "would lead to a 21% increase in passenger capacity while dropping ticket prices by as much as 44%" on the B737-300.
Now, forget about the claustraphobia of flying with 20" of seat pitch, unable to do any work or get a quick nap while your short-haul one-hour flight is coming off a 90-minute ground hold and is 16th in line for take-off to a destination that might be experiencing significant holding patterns. Forget about carry-on baggage wars and the general obesity of certain world markets. Forget about the inevitable armrest battles. Forget about where to stow the life preservers and what might also serve as a flotation device. Forget about a nightmarish struggle for a tangle of oxygen masks. Forget about all that.
Just tell me one thing: How many emergency exits must a plane have for a given number of passengers? How do you add these to a 737 or A320? How much additional weight and space do they take up with along with their slides? (Because all non-overwing exits must be full-egress doors with slides with no seats blocking them).
Because someone actually took this idea seriously enough to build a prototype and make an attempt to bring it to market. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary actually considered it for a moment, despite the idea being preposterously unrealistic.
Is this a case of everyone missing the very obvious or is it the momentum of bureaucractic fools or what exactly is this?
If you've ever wondered who to curse about that parsimonious economy class seat digging into your kidneys, the culprit may very well be an Italian company known as Avio Interiors. They are a world leader in the airliner seat industry. They're also a serious company employing serious professionals and spending serious money on product design.
And yet, they've come up with this thing:
A 'perching saddle' design that they claim "would lead to a 21% increase in passenger capacity while dropping ticket prices by as much as 44%" on the B737-300.
Now, forget about the claustraphobia of flying with 20" of seat pitch, unable to do any work or get a quick nap while your short-haul one-hour flight is coming off a 90-minute ground hold and is 16th in line for take-off to a destination that might be experiencing significant holding patterns. Forget about carry-on baggage wars and the general obesity of certain world markets. Forget about the inevitable armrest battles. Forget about where to stow the life preservers and what might also serve as a flotation device. Forget about a nightmarish struggle for a tangle of oxygen masks. Forget about all that.
Just tell me one thing: How many emergency exits must a plane have for a given number of passengers? How do you add these to a 737 or A320? How much additional weight and space do they take up with along with their slides? (Because all non-overwing exits must be full-egress doors with slides with no seats blocking them).
Because someone actually took this idea seriously enough to build a prototype and make an attempt to bring it to market. Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary actually considered it for a moment, despite the idea being preposterously unrealistic.
Is this a case of everyone missing the very obvious or is it the momentum of bureaucractic fools or what exactly is this?
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