[Lorianne]

Why not just make them stationary bikes to power the plane?

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Why bother with the seat? Frances is after all the gayest nation on Earth.

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Don’t give them any ideas.

[Sequoyah101]

Why not just a post up your butt and then you can stick the passengers in the floor like a pin cushion? Less passenger space and seats = more freight space.

I ought to patent that.

[driftdiver]

Boy thats an incentive to stop flying

[WhiskeyX]

Bicycle seats are implicated in a five-fold increase of prostate cancer in men. This promises a windfall for the attorneys seeking damages in the future for these airline passengers using the prostate cancer inducing seating.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They’ll charge extra for it.

[OpusatFR]

No bloody way.

What will they do to business or first? Stools? Throw peanuts and water?

[Bryanw92]

Does anyone need to go anyplace bad enough to fly like that?

Why not just build honeycombs in the plane, sedate the passengers for the flight, and then drag them out onto the tarmac to wake up afterward. Then hose out the honeycomb and load in the next cargo of meatbags.

[headstamp 2]

They could simply stack people on pallets for even more revenue.

[Dagnabitt]

The airline's earlier patent:

[Secret Agent Man]

thank god i haven’t flown since 2001.

[KarlInOhio]

Time to dust off some transport layouts from the 17 and 1800s.

[Secret Agent Man]

so there will be no seat cushion to capture the farts of the folks ahead of you.

sweeeeeet.

[Secret Agent Man]

they don’t show how the tray tables will come down from the person’s back.

[dragnet2]

Take the restrooms out and put um on porta-potty seats, so they can add more seats, more ticket sales.

[ThanhPhero]

I am trying to imagine a 16 hour flight followed by a 7 hour flight on these seats. US's largest airline has always fantasized loading economy class passengers with a forklift into the cargo bay but so far it won't fly. If Airbus does these seats maybe the forklift will happen. Passengers will be pressed into bales and loaded. Easy. Cheap. When they lose 10% of the forkloaded passengers they will send it all straight to Chicago along with the mandatory 10̀% of the checked baggage for sale in their annual auction.

[PAR35]

I read today that Boeing is working on putting 200 passengers into a 737 by moving the rows closer together. They are also going to have to put in an extra exit door.

[editor-surveyor]

It it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!
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[exDemMom]

I can’t imagine any airline actually being able to get people to buy tickets for those. Also, they look like they would have major safety issues—no crash survivability, no flotation cushion under the seat.

I’m guessing whoever designed that has never had the experience of flying. It’s hard enough to get comfortable as it is.

[publius911]

Airbus Seeking Patent For Bicycle Seats Because Flying Isn’t Uncomfortable Enough Already

My experience is that the heaviest loads you can put as a load on a structure, any structure, is wall to wall people standing up.
Any existing aircraft so loaded could never take off.

To wit :

The flattened Golden Gate Bridge

I am sorry I couldn't find the famous photo of the flattened bridge.