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Yea or Nay? Vertically Staggered Airplane Seats
The Chaise Longue Economy Seat, by industrial designer Alejandro Nuñez Vicente
At just 22 years old, industrial designer Alejandro Nuñez Vicente started a company, Chaise Longue Economy Seat, to commercialize his design for vertically-staggered airplane seats.
Vicente's concept is that the center seats of the airplane, i.e. not the outer seats, would be vertically staggered as follows:
Image: 1OFF
Apparently the seats on the lower level recline by scooching the seat forward, pulling the bottom of the backrest with it. Carry-ons for lower-level riders are reportedly meant "to go under the seat in front of you," according to CNN, but it's not clear where your legs then go.
Another potential issue I see with the design is that legroom on the upper levels seems kind of constrained, no? That row in the back of the mock-up?
Image: 1OFF
I do understand the appeal—to airlines, not passengers—of a design that can fit more passengers into a plane. My question is, does this design fit more passengers, and if so, in a cost-effective way? I'd like to see some figures on just how much front-to-back space is actually saved by the arrangement. (In the photos it doesn't seem like much of a gain to me, but that's just me eyeballing it.) I'm also curious to see projected costs of retrofitting this system, and what exactly happens with the design of the overhead bins that the upper rows are now intruding on.
Your thoughts?
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Can't wait to spend three hours sitting in someone's fart cloud. High speed rail can't come to this country fast enough.
Is this that "human centered design" stuff?
Regardless of the odd layout, the extra weight for all that structure would be prohibitive enough. You would also need to eliminate all the overhead bins over the middle rows. And what about in flight service? Wondering how that height would impact the flight attendants job...
Maybe good for military but not civilian, this is a good way to make your share holders happy but, makes you seem like your trying to maximize profit at the expense of personal space and safety. Airlines will be fine without it. https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/05/business/iata-airlines-profits-post-pandemic/index.html
The primary benefit to the customer would be cheaper fares, assuming the airline would pass on the value of increased density. So the customer would decide to fly in that lower section to save some $$, like the middle seat of today. So I believe there's a market for it, even if many would not choose it.
"assuming the airline would pass on the value" ha ha ha (repeat until text input field limit reached)