Airbus's folding saddle seat could be the cattle-class future for cheap flights

<p><img alt="" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQpTcJUSjScF9RUZuI9MElJ8utzbYmTl4dtpl62WJo5pWT-YRajZK2uzMdIQXDE7ok0UrSM0jMrYKCOLYdkiXBYW2rODC_ZpzJK3sh4P9nqN_PsTmfUPKrYoh0BTM-y9n-TeYi6Q_f_RsZ/" width="360" /></p><p>Airbus's folding saddle seat could be the cattle-class future for cheap flights As Airbus files a patent for a new space-saving design to jam many more economy class passengers in.</p><p>If you thought low-cost air travel couldn't get any more bleak, then Airbus has a treat in store for you. The aeroplane manufacturer has now filed patent for the what looks like a human battery-farm, but is in fact the future of budget flights: racks upon racks of folding saddle-seats for even more passengers to be jammed onto aeroplanes, packed in knee-to-rump.</p><p>While some airlines have already removed their folding tray tables and squeezed leg-room down to brutal knee-capping levels, Airbus have gone one step further, doing away with the idea of proper seating altogether. In their ultra-economy vision, seating aisles will instead take the form of long horizontal poles, from which bicycle-like saddles and small back and arm rests will pivot out, on to which humans will be placed, skewered together like table-football players.</p><p>“The design of the seats has to be optimised so that they present the smallest possible bulk,” says Airbus, explaining that the saddle-style seat has been developed “in order to reduce the distance needed to accommodate the legs of passengers between two rows of seating devices.”</p>

Airbus's folding saddle seat could be the cattle-class future for cheap flights

Airbus's folding saddle seat could be the cattle-class future for cheap flights As Airbus files a patent for a new space-saving design t...

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