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why dont they angle the seats towards the aisle a bit? this helps with parked cars I would think it would be the same in this case.
by solotronics 9y ago
why dont they angle the seats towards the aisle a bit? this helps with parked cars I would think it would be the same in this case.
- dingaling 9y agoThomson Aero Seating in the UK proposed an angled seating arrangement for economy / coach back in the early 2000s; no airline adopted it but they went crazy for the business-class version. Jet Blue have a special variation for their narrowbody airliners. One of the problems of angled seating is that it introduces additional lateral stresses on the body which have to be demonstrated during certification.
- tbirrell 9y agoBecause humans, and by extension, airline seats, are primarily vertical in nature. Whereas cars are primarily horizontal in nature. So the elongated side is extending in a different direction. In a parking lot, the shape, combined with the mechanics of parking, means that it helps to angle things. Though, you do lose one parking spot or so in the process. In a plane, the sides of the object (in this case the upright coffin sized space you fit into) are roughly the same, so angling will do little to help and is largely unneeded to "park" yourself. Ultimately though, airlines are unwilling to lose that one row if they did compensate for the morphing a reclined seat does for the shape of things.