If you think airline seating is hellish now, just wait till you feast your eyes on this new seat design concept from Airbus.
The concept, shown in a patent application to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, shows passengers seated on top of each other in a bi-level configuration. In other words, you would be stacked on top of your seat mate.
“In modern means of transport, in particular in aircraft, it is very important from an economic point of view to make optimum use of the available space in a passenger cabin,” Airbus wrote in the patent application.
According to the application, the standard aircraft cabin design will feature two levels of passengers with a “mezzanine seating area” that would replace the overhead lockers.
Airbus claims the design would “provide a high level of comfort for the passengers” – but the concept drawings paint a different image.
Airbus filed the patent in March; however, a patent application doesn’t mean Airbus is actually building this new seating arrangement.
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