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Airbus: Plane Manufacturer Files Patent That Shows Passengers Stacked Atop One Another

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Airbus filed a patent application for a seating arrangement in its planes that would allow two stacked rows of seats. Drawings appear to show some seats can lie flat as a result. (www.theverge.com) עוד...

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djames225
djames225 4
You're a poet and did'nt really know it..thumbs up
chalet
chalet 9
What the hell do they mean by "filing a patent". The original patent for canning meat and other staples was filed by a frenchman (of all nationalities) by the name of Philippe de Girard in the early 1810s. Perhaps it was a crude device. In the 1920s the US Patent Office granted several patents for canning fruit and other foodstuffs. So with a little tweaking those inventions can be used for canning people inside the innards of the Whale 380 without having to pay hefty royalties (LIMAO)
corsair2
David Seider 2
"Meat" in a cylindrical aluminum container? Yup, already done. Patent infringement!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/Vienna_sausage.jpg
Quackers
Quackers 8
a no win for passengers -
Sit on the top and you've got people looking up your pants, privacy issues and a somewhat lack of floor space.
Sit on the bottom, you've got people looking down your shirt, privacy issues, and god help you if there's turbulence and they just served piping hot coffee....
Whendogsfly
Whendogsfly 4
Beware of person getting air sick above you.
ddesfosse
ddesfosse 4
Or the people who had mexican in the terminal before the flight.... Ugh!
preacher1
preacher1 9
Somebody has way to much time on their hands.
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 -6
Prolly sitting at home drawing disability or unemployment,welfare, food stamps, medicade, drinking Miller Lite (yuk) and smoking some of Mexico's finest. LG!
RRKen
Kenneth Schmidt 6
I draw disability, so in your view, that makes me less than a person. I strongly resent derogatory comments like that.
andyc852
Andy Cruickshank 0
Ummm. This is Airbus a European Company. No US welfare here!
WALLACE24
WALLACE24 -5
He sold it to them for cash so he didn't lose his bennies. Lol

SmokedChops
SmokedChops 4
short response? "no" ...long response? "hell, no" It is already similar to playing 'human "Jenga" to get off of a fully laden A319. The Marquis De Sade School of Industrial Design rears its inept grasp of the human form, yet again.
dee9bee
dee9bee 7
I just hope the passenger above me doesn't fart...
chalet
chalet 1
She just did (LIMAO)
paul8626
Paul Smith 3
I think Airbus has embraced the BUS part of their name too much.
Carioca
Tomer Ariav 3
I squawked recently that the aircraft industry is getting their seating (stowage) ideas from the slave ships in 1790. See drawings in the following link:
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm
linbb
linbb 2
Stupid is as Stupid does and here Airbust has gone the extra mile to insure passenger discomfort at its finest. WOW what a concept, next just bag em and tag em.
CaptainFreedom
CaptainFreedom 2
Awesome! Can't wait to try this out. I can't see a lot of ladies in skirts wanting to sit in the elevated seats.
patpylot
patrick baker 2
go the other way, entirely. Remember airline flights in the 70's and 80's, before deregulation. Give spacious legroom, comfortable seats, meals worth digesting,airliners perhaps seating 150 where they now sit 200.... scale up the price of the ticket, and watch the folks get on with a happy smile, and leave content at the destination. Passengers are not poor, rather cheap, bargain hunters always disappointed . I don't suggest this experiment go beyond a few airplanes, until the word gets out about happy-flight. Maybe yes, maybe no.
preacher1
preacher1 3
Pax may not be poor but it was the upper crust of society that flew. Rest of the folks either had their own planes or went train or bus.
AWAAlum
AWAAlum 2
We've come full circle. Today it costs more to take a train than a plane.
cybdiver
Rob Peter 2
Headline news Flash! Half the passengers survive by having their heads protected by the person sitting above them. Unfortunately they died of suffocation. The airline is trying to put the blame on the people in the upper seats. This idea is almost as bad as the stand up seating design where you sit on a pole with a short rectangular wedge invented by a German designer last year. Maybe I should patent the use of coffins claiming them to be private cabins for first class.
paul8626
Paul Smith 2
What would you expect from the countries that brought you 40/8 stock cars.
patpylot
patrick baker 1
this is theoretical, an exercise in silly thinking, and this will never come into use for paying cattle, er passengers. There is no mobility here , and what their price points come to be will surely not reflect economies of scale, therefore lower prices. Better idea is to put all paying suckers into a state of unconsciousness, then stack them like cordwood in coffin-like seating, three deep and four high. Better to be not awake then sit in this stupidity seating arrangement.
joelwiley
joel wiley 1
It is theoretical at this point, but consider the number of hare-brained ideas that were implemented (or at least an attempt was made). Re: unconscious cordwood- the expense of the pharmacology involved would eat into the profits. Besides, since when do they care about the feelings of the self-loading cargo?
ddesfosse
ddesfosse 1
Don't tell the folks at Spirit about this! At least the video explaining it to the flying sardine public would probably be humorous.
dmitze01
Dan Mitzel 1
Google Budd Slumbercoach - the rails did this with economy sleeping cars back in the '50s. It wasn't a bad way to ride, and less $$$ than a Pullman bedroom. If this means I can move up from coach to business class (i.e. lie-flat beds) on long-haul flights I'm all for it. Why not use the air-rights above the main level if partitions can be added to ensure privacy? I'm sure the drawings leave them out for clarity regarding the patent application. These aren't engineering drawings after all.
jeffking45
jeffking45 1
I hate to say it, but it reminds me of the accommodations on a slave ship. With slightly more room.
tdrucker55
Terence Rucker 1
Michael O'Leary must be salivating!
djames225
djames225 1
"Ladies and gentlemen welcome aboard our newest Airbus A365 Sardine Can special...the flight attendants will show those of you in the lower seats how to lay down and they will then strap you in...we would not want you flailing about mid flight dont you know...and bed pans will be provided"
JimHeslop
Jim Heslop 1
.....provided.....for an extra $50.00!
joelwiley
joel wiley 1
Why seats at all? SRO packing ala subways. 1st class less dense than economy cramming. Pack tightly enough, seatbelts unneeded.
jwmson
jwmson 1
Don't tell "Airworse"--- they would try it.
wkwood35
William Wood 1
There were DC-3 that were converted to sleepers back in the 1930's. Nothing new in the Airbus idea.
sebulorum
JOSE PEREZ LIECHTI 1
Seating configurations are crammed enough already. Wouldn't be caught dead in one of these stacked seatings
sworral
Steve Worral 1
The plane still looks like an uncirc, um, well, never mind.
TWA55
TWA55 1
All okay until S--- hits the fan, legs, bodies going everywhere, no thanks
JimHeslop
Jim Heslop 1
I get the top seat! And I have gas!
sparkie624
sparkie624 1
I do not like this idea... Hope it never gets off the ground... That is a plane for south west as they believe in cattle hauling... HMM.. Maybe they are targeting south west airlines as a potential client.. :)
AWAAlum
AWAAlum 3
There's nothing wrong with Southwest. I receive the same level of service, sometimes better, than with other airlines.
rtjorgenson
Ryan Jorgenson 1
If it makes the price of the ticket cheaper then people will go for this, period.
Dubslow
Dubslow -1
This is a duplicate
preacher1
preacher1 1
Bill, I'm not sure if this is an exact duplicate or just another paranoid interior patent they have came up with. It sounds familiar but they have filed so many here lately it's hard to keep track.
Buck333
John Buckley 0
. . . If we think about it: people fly less because of the crowding; we take fewer vacations; people get left trying to drive home because of route plans that don't get serviced because of airline shenanigans! Personally I think it is all in "Restraint of Trade". This industry has a 'choke hold' on our commerce and is helping to erode civility.

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