Airbus offered to put passengers on airplanes on top of each other

How comedians see the optimization of work with passengers / The Onion

Rapidly poorer airlines do not know how else to squeeze out some money from flights that are unfavorable for them. The European giant Airbus, it seems, came up with: in a patent application filed by German engineers at the US Patent Office in October, he proposes to seat the passengers on the head with each other .



As planned by the company, it will be possible to stuff passengers more tightly in business class - in the middle row, the usual seats will alternate with elevated ones, which will have to be climbed up the stairs. Thus, an inferior second floor will be created, the passengers of which will be placed between the passengers of the “first floor”.
')


This design will allow better use of the semicircular cross section of the passenger cabin of the aircraft. There is also a system by which business class passengers will be able to fold the seats and be in a horizontal position.



The seats can be located "Christmas tree" so that the passenger's view "bottom" does not stick directly into the passenger seat "above." In any case, when drafting a patent, the engineers took into account that such an arrangement of seats can, in their opinion, be successfully applied not only in airplanes, but also in trains with buses.



On how many percent increase the capacity of the aircraft, the patent does not indicate.

Airlines are constantly trying to increase their profits by reducing the comfort of passengers. This is achieved in various ways, from a banal increase in the number of rows of seats, to original ways of arranging them, such as the “chess order,” about which I have already written . The day is not far when passengers will simply be turned off with the help of tranquilizers and transported in piles - saving on food and free space is obvious.


Business class by the standards of the future / Fifth Element Film