I’m under the weather with sinus issues, with the TV on mute watching some guys build weird decks on the DIY channel and reading blogs, when Allahpundit’s post made my sinuses screech:
Internet comes together in shared loathing for freaky new airplane seating design
Yessiree, Zodiac Seats France, supplier of Airbus (who float sadistic trial balloons every so often), is proposing
alternating forward and backward facing seats placed side by side.
Like so,
Obviously designed for the short-legged, by the short-legged, who don’t need to get out to go to the toilet.
Airbus, on the other hand, has come up with the flying donut,
Rather than donuts, Airbus is finding inspiration in Dante, which Dante surely would add as the 10th circle were he alive today, even when he found inspiration in Virgil,
So whatever your air travel misery is right now, just keep in mind it’ll get worse.
Carping about What Pope Doesn’t See: Devil’s Dung Can Be Fertilizer and other perfect Latin American idiots shall resume shortly.
UPDATE
Linked to by Dustbury. Thanks!
Linked to by American Digest. Thanks!
I’d like to know how one manages to arise from their seat and crawl over or dance around their neighbor to get to the aisle?
A few years ago (like 9) there was an article in the NYTimes claiming that Airbus was working on replacing seats with standing posts.
“One Day, That Economy Ticket May Buy You a Place to Stand” By Christopher Elliot on April 25, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html
Airbus backpedaled like crazy and the web version of the article included a “correction” as follows:
“… the article said the company would not specifically comment on the upright-seating proposal. The company now says that while it researched that idea in 2003, it has since abandoned it. A correction of the article appeared on this page on Tuesday. It should have acknowledged that if The Times had correctly understood the history of the proposal, the article would have qualified it, and would not have appeared on Page A1.”
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Both the NYTimes and Airbus are inveterate liars, so I assume this is still a working proposal.
Go to the link and click on the graphic. it is très amusant.
Dante was a piker, Walter, compared to whoever came up with that idea.
Joan, maybe there’s a potty under the seat?
Fausta: Airbus. They were just lying and backpedaling. They are also the source of the love seat idea.
No love in that seat!