New style airliner seating

[red750]

Semi-standing seats

 

Look damned uncomfortable, particularly for seniors.

 

 

[Birdseye]

Why not just give them rails and hang straps just like they do on those bloody buses they use in lieu of air bridges, after all aircraft are less likely to crash than a bus.

 

 

[derekliston]

Ryanair in the UK tried to use them but public backlash and the regulator I believe, stopped them. I guarantee that I will never fly on an airline that uses them!

 

 

[Jaba-who]

They would be useless on anything other than very short flights. I can see the result. People buy a low cost seat and board - then the fun starts. Obese people can’t even get into the seat because of reduced pitch. Particularly if they are furthest from the aisle.

 

The elderly get strapped in and then realise they can’t stand for more than a few minutes.

 

What is the answer when you can’t seat people? Kick them off? I assume there will still have to be “seated” seats as well. Do they kick seat paying passengers out of their seats to seat a pax who suddenly needs one?

 

Forced standing often will result is feinting (like soldiers on parade) So suddenly you get all these people who feint and have to be extricated and laid flat till they revive. And then seated but are unable to be “seated”.

 

If they feint from being upright and can’t be extracted from the seat or the upright position - which is a lethal position in an unconscious person.

 

And of course the incidence of DVT is dramatically higher when you are in the upright position for prolonged period. So after the event the claims for compensation for DVT will go up.

 

Strikes me this is an idea that’s not been thought out very well.

 

 

[Birdseye]

It pays not to take silly ideas too seriously.

 

 

[johnm]

your frock would ride up over your knees ....................... if you have a need for a frock