According to Sky News, Zodiac Seats France, a manufacturer of aircraft passenger seats, has designed a new seating configuration that would radically change the way we sit on commercial flights.
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The seat design aims “to increase cabin density while also creating seat units that increase the space available at the shoulder and arm area”, according to the patent application, Wired reported.
Other than the patent, there is no evidence that this new arrangement will be adopted in the airline industry yet.
Perhaps if you’re traveling with a group and end up sitting face-to-face, that could be nice. “Here, if you’re a human with peripheral vision, fat chance of that”. One of the seats in a row is flipped, so the middle seat would face in the opposite direction as those beside it.
You’d have to argue whether even the concept of a windowless plane will even be enough to distract you from the child staring back at you.
Shawn Langlois at MarketWatch calls the design “the worst air travel idea since pay toilets”, but he notes that there are no current plans to install hexagon seating in planes.
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The company says the hexagonal shape of the chair will actually give the passenger more room on each side given that they are not right up against another passenger.
