Airbus wants to patent a bicycle-style airline seat — foxnews.com

Airline manufacturer Airbus has filed a patent for a bicycle-like seat that lets airlines fit in more passengers per plane.Airbus Just when you think that airline coach seats couldn’t get any tighter, Airbus has a concept that looks like an apparatus of torture rather than a perch for passengers. The airplane manufacturer has filed a seat patent with a design that props passengers up in a narrow seat, and when the seats are unused, they fold vertically to save space.   Cushions are shaped liked bicycle saddles and missing is what the patent application calls "bulk" –meaning the stuff taken up by cushions-- a tray table and a headrest.

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