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Airbus Seeking Patent For Bicycle Seats Because Flying Isn’t Uncomfortable Enough Already
The Consumerist ^ | 14 July 2014 | Mary Beth Quirk

Posted on 07/14/2014 6:21:39 PM PDT by Lorianne

While you’re fighting for territory on the arm rest and suffering the kicks, nudges and otherwise annoying seat disturbances that come with flying commercial airlines, just think… it could be worse. How much worse? Like perching on a bicycle seat worse.

Airbus submitted a patent in Europe for the seats, with have small backrests but no tray tables or headrest, reports the Los Angeles Times. And legroom? Keep dreaming.

The pared down design is an attempt to cut down on bulk, which in turn allows for more sardined passengers and ostensibly, more money.

“In effect, to increase the number of cabin seats, the space allotted to each passenger must be reduced,” the patent application states.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: airbus; aircycle; airtravel; bicycleseats; dolts; futureofairtravel
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To: Lorianne
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.
21 posted on 07/14/2014 7:07:49 PM PDT by ThanhPhero (Khach san La Vang hanh huong tham vieng Maria)
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To: Dagnabitt

That looks pretty inefficient. Looks like they could get a lot more in if they put them on their sides rather than their backs.


22 posted on 07/14/2014 7:10:46 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: ThanhPhero

put them in coffin-sized compartments and load them up


23 posted on 07/14/2014 7:11:01 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: ThanhPhero

Makes Soviet Aeroflot look good


24 posted on 07/14/2014 7:11:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Sequoyah101

The Chinese were talking about stand-up “seats” a year ago so they could more than double the passenger capacity. Just think. Two of these things collide and 2400 passengers die.


25 posted on 07/14/2014 7:12:41 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINEhttp://steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/)
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To: Lorianne

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.


26 posted on 07/14/2014 7:13:03 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

Good point!


27 posted on 07/14/2014 7:18:25 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Amnesty is Treason. Its agents are Traitors.)
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To: Dagnabitt

* guffaw *


28 posted on 07/14/2014 7:19:08 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: GeronL

I’ve said for some time now that the US airline industry seems to be hellbent to achieve a level of “service” pitched somewhere between 1975 Aeroflot and a Mumbai jitney.


29 posted on 07/14/2014 7:22:55 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Lorianne

It it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going!
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30 posted on 07/14/2014 7:23:17 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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31 posted on 07/14/2014 7:24:02 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: KarlInOhio

More legroom there than in the last Delta flight I was on.


32 posted on 07/14/2014 7:24:18 PM PDT by Eric Pode of Croydon
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To: Lorianne

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.


33 posted on 07/14/2014 7:26:26 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Lorianne
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.

34 posted on 07/14/2014 7:31:50 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: arthurus

Not efficient enough.

Suggest containers where passengers are stacked like cordwood. The containers are a passenger comfort factor. Spreads the load and keeps the total crush to a “reasonable” level.


35 posted on 07/14/2014 7:34:42 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Lorianne

I read the other day that a new study found that bicycle seats increase the risk of prostate cancer in men. If true, “frequent flyers” will be dropping from the skies like flies.


36 posted on 07/14/2014 7:37:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The future must not belong to those who slander bacon.)
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To: Eric Pode of Croydon

This is worst than wooden benches with ropes for seat belts


37 posted on 07/14/2014 8:23:50 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: exDemMom

They need to install pedals so the passengers can power the electronic avionic.

Call it Liberal Air Lines... LAL


38 posted on 07/14/2014 8:25:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: Lorianne

Psst....Boeing if Airbus does that, have La-Z-Boy make your seats...:-)


39 posted on 07/14/2014 8:39:40 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Lorianne

Most people shop for airline tickets based on price, and price alone. They’ll complain, especially online, about comfort but the next flight they take they get on Expedia or some site and shop with only one criteria: price. Then they continue to blame airlines for adapting to the way consumers buy.

Airlines run pack people in as tight as they can because we’ve trained them to do it. I like a more comfortable experience and I suck it up and spring for first class, or business class. If more people were willing to pay more for comfort they’d provide it.


40 posted on 07/14/2014 8:42:11 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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