After all the memes and jokes, we thought the designer of the ‘elevated’ or two-level plane seats had returned to the drawing board but he’s baaaaack.
At the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, Germany the designer Núñez Vicente pushed his ‘business-class/first-class hybrid’ model.
It’s basically the same idea — removing the overhead locker to create two levels of airplane seating in one cabin – with one passenger seated directly below another, but whereas in economy there would be three seats on the top and bottom rows, this new ‘elevated’ class, the first class concept has much more room.
With just one seat on the bottom row, and two on the top, each row is designed to be ‘secluded, private and include the luxury trappings of elite travel – lie-flat bed, privacy and copious leg room.’
Lower level of the business-class/first-class version of the dual-level seat concept.
Not sure if the claustrophobic among us would like this new arrangement.