Feel like commercial flights are already ridiculously congested and claustrophobic? Things could be about to get worse.
Airbus has filed a patent for a split-level mezzanine seating design, which would basically put passengers on top of each other.
The design would also be used in business class, having middle rows alternating between floor level and level one.
This would allow more seats to fit into the premium class.
Airbus wrote that the arrangement is suitable for use in the passenger cabin of an aircraft and in “other means of transport” like buses and trains…
“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.
“Passenger cabins are therefore fitted with as many rows of passenger seats as possible, which are positioned with as little space between them as possible.
“In order to still more efficiently use the space in a passenger cabin of an aircraft, [the patent] proposes to position an elevated deck structure on a main deck floor in the passenger cabin of a wide-body aircraft for providing a mezzanine seating area in a substantially unused upper lobe of the aircraft fuselage.
“[One of the drawings] describes a split level seating structure; wherein consecutive rows of seats are alternately arranged at a lower and a higher level.”
What do you think of this new arrangement?
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