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

Michael O'Leary must be salivating!

I hate to say it, but it reminds me of the accommodations on a slave ship. With slightly more room.

. . . 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.

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

I get the top seat! And I have gas!

All okay until S--- hits the fan, legs, bodies going everywhere, no thanks

The plane still looks like an uncirc, um, well, never mind.

Seating configurations are crammed enough already. Wouldn't be caught dead in one of these stacked seatings

There were DC-3 that were converted to sleepers back in the 1930's. Nothing new in the Airbus idea.

I think Airbus has embraced the BUS part of their name too much.

"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"

What would you expect from the countries that brought you 40/8 stock cars.

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.

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.

Don't tell the folks at Spirit about this! At least the video explaining it to the flying sardine public would probably be humorous.

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.

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.

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)

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.. :)

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.

I just hope the passenger above me doesn't fart...

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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....

Why seats at all? SRO packing ala subways. 1st class less dense than economy cramming. Pack tightly enough, seatbelts unneeded.

Somebody has way to much time on their hands.

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.

If it makes the price of the ticket cheaper then people will go for this, period.

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.