New airplane seats pack fliers into 23 inches of space

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/flights/2010-09-10-airlinestanding10_ST_N.htm

SkyRider airline seats pack fliers into 23 inches of space
By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY

Think your seat in coach is cramped? Take a look at the SkyRider. The new airplane seat, to be unveiled next week at the Aircraft Interiors Expo Americas conference in Long Beach, would give passengers an experience akin to riding horseback.

They'd sit at an angle with no more than 23 inches between their perch and the seat in front of them — a design that could appeal to low-cost airlines that have floated the idea of offering passengers standing-room tickets on short flights.

The SkyRider isn't headed for an airplane cabin just yet. But its designer, Aviointeriors, an aircraft seat design firm based in Latina, Italy, says several airlines, including some in the U.S., have expressed interest.

"We feel extremely confident that this concept will ... have great appeal to airlines for economic purposes," says Dominique Menoud, director general of Aviointeriors Group...

and I don't plan to flying on them anytime soon.

I'd rather fly Jetblue and their wonderful 34 inch seat space.

23 inch? Fuck that.

They have time to investigate Roger Clemens, but what about this?

As in, if it allowed me to take a flight I may not have usually been able to afford.

I can hardly wait until Southwest demands a 2 seat purchase for the wide load passengers when all they have is these.

And how does one securely strap a toddler in a car seat to that monstrosity.

RIGHT???!!

:crazy:

will be affected. So not a big deal.

Why do the airlines hate us regular folks so much?? :shrug:

I'm 5'5" and I feel crammed against the seat in front already.

I haven't flown in 10 years, and if these are the seats they put in, fuck if I will again.

I'll wait for a boat for that trip to europe someday.

Our tax dollars prop up the profits and expenses of airline travel. It is wasteful, uncomfortable, expensive, and dirty. We pay for the airports, the air controllers, and subsidize the losses of airlines. If we used half that money to build and maintain decent rails service, we would be better off.

We've had a little progress in my area -- this is Central NJ --

they went for double-decker commuter trains and think they maybe rubberized the

wheels a bit? Less noisy somehow?

And, today at my library they were putting solar panels on the roof!!!

Or at least install a Magic Fingers (tm) box on each of them to administer a cheap thrill (at $0.50/minute).

To my untrained eye, the survivability of a crash with that setup probably approaches zero.

Nothing like standing through an 8-hour flight, not including time on the tarmac. :mad:

with inconveniently attached feelings and preferences.

....yet somehow I think that would be more comfortable.

Good lord that looks horrible. Even the model seems unsure of it.

Ouch!

this is one time when I'm glad I can fit into a normal seat. I'm five foot three.

However, I have had people slop over the arm rests before and that is NOT comfortable.

One time I was on an aisle seat, the couple next to me saw their luggage going OFF the plane, and some customer service rep was hanging over me the whole time trying to talk them out of their panic.

So this guy's right hand was behind my head on the seat back, he was leaning over me with his tie in my face. YUCK.

I couldn't do a damn thing.