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>Airlines will never adopt these seats en masse until people show a willingness to pay more for them. Why would people need to pay more for them? I see nothin
by magduf 7y ago
>Airlines will never adopt these seats en masse until people show a willingness to pay more for them.
Why would people need to pay more for them? I see nothing here indicating these seats would actually cost the airline more. They don't actually take up any more space (they would take up a few extra inches, total, for the whole length of the plane, because of the offset, but that's not significant). These aren't some kind of fancy seats that cost a lot more to manufacture.
- goatherders 7y agoOf course they cost the airlines more. There are seats currently in the planes that do the trick just fine. Ripping them out and replacing them is indeed costly. If the goal is to get these seats on NEW airplanes, well okay. But the refresh of a fleet takes a LONG time.
- magduf 7y agoThey buy new planes all the time though; Airbus is selling its planes as fast as it can build them. And airlines are constantly trying to get newer planes because they're more fuel-efficient, and the capital cost of the plane itself isn't that big a deal compared to how much money they'll spend on fuel while it's in service.
- magduf 7y agoAlso, airplane interiors probably get refreshed every so often anyway. Those seats are fabric, and with so many people sitting in them all the time wear out over time.