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Extra wide chair unveiled for overweight airline passengers
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2015 Apr 17, 7:24am 21,298 views 25 comments
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Tenpoundbass
2015 Apr 17, 7:34am
Not to long ago, when Republicans were in charge and common sense ruled the day. We just called them plane seats.
Dan8267
2015 Apr 17, 8:02am
Finally CIC's wife can fit in the seat. Now if only they made the door wide enough to get her on the plane. ...and had enough fuel to haul her ass. Maybe she should stick the sea travel. She could be the boat. Not even an iceberg could sink a ship that big.
Tenpoundbass
2015 Apr 17, 12:17pm
Why should a 150 lb. guy pay the same price as this 400 lb. guy.
A 150lb guy can practically be sitting on your lap for the next 5 hours, while you personally feel that he is violating your personal space. Because you chose to read and catchup on email the whole flight.
The problem isn't the fat guy next to you. The problem is Ikea furniture is better suited for sitting in during commercial flying than the unregulated seats that profits dictate.
When any of you EVER find your self flying and you're having a miserable experience, regardless the circumstances. I want you to picture ME laughing at your stupid complacent asses.
Those 10 inch seats fits your lifestyle right now, but some day, and I don't know when, but mark my words those tiny seats are going to bite you in your dumb little ass, and I want you to know that I'll be there to laugh trough the pain at YOU.
In the meantime here's a picture of another fat guy you simpletons can laugh at.
[get your own damn picture of a fat guy to laugh at you sick bastards]
Dan8267
2015 Apr 17, 12:32pm
Speaking of airlines, I snapped this picture of Dan at work at the Miami airport. He's pleaded with his supervisor so he can take off the blue gloves, but his boss won't let him.
So, you're insult is about gayness, not the TSA. Sorry, but I don't look down on gays, so the only offense I could take is at the accusation that I would ever work for a despicable organization like the TSA.
Your insult says more about you than me. Specifically, it says your as much of a homophobe as you are a racist. Ironically, most homophobes are latent homosexuals as the Republican Party has proven time and time again.
If I were gay, I would be interested in men's crotches, but unlike you, I'd stick to the living instead of molesting those cadavers.
MAGA
2015 Apr 17, 1:41pm
If I was this fat, I would fly first-class. I normally do as it is. I'm 6'5".
Dan8267
2015 Apr 17, 2:14pm
Since I am gay, I would be interested in men's crotches,
Telling us something we don't already know?
If I were gay, I would be interested in men's crotches, but unlike you, I'd stick to the living instead of molesting those cadavers.
Ah, once again, CIC shows his dishonesty by deliberating misquoting someone.
Dan8267
2015 Apr 17, 2:14pm
The seats are ridiculously small and Americans are ridiculously wide. These are not mutually exclusive observations.
Vicente
2015 Apr 17, 2:22pm
ConglomCo Air, is shrinking the standard seat.
transport seat width (in)
Amtrak Acela 23"
Dodger Stadium 20"
United 757 17"
In the future unless you are a toothpick, prepare to pay the FATTY UPCHARGE.
Latest "slimline" seat designs for 737NG, bought back a little claimed seat width by making
the armrests even narrower.
Dan8267
2015 Apr 17, 4:29pm
Why should a 150 lb. guy pay the same price as this 400 lb. guy. It costs the airline more money to get that lard ass off the ground.
The price of an airline ticket has nothing to do with the cost of the flight and everything to do with what the traffic will bear. Why should a person's ticket be priced based on when he bought it, where he bought it, the cookies in his browser? Yet, all these things affect the price you pay for an airline ticket.
If we're going to base the price of things on some sane and fair criteria, why stop with charging based on weight? Why not apply the Law of Equalization of Net Income to everything?
MisdemeanorRebel
2015 Apr 17, 5:46pm
The seats are ridiculously small and Americans are ridiculously wide. These are not mutually exclusive observations.
Yup.
Amtrak Acela 23"
Dodger Stadium 20"
United 757 17"
Vote with your wallet. Insist America do "Free Trade" with our shitty Airlines and allow Foreign Carriers to run domestic routes. The ground crew and flight personnel would be just as American in employee composition as Delta and SW.
Looking forward to the day when Etihad, Qatar, Singapore, Cathay Pacific, and other airlines can kick the shit out of the welfare-addict American and Delta Airlines CEOs and Investors.
Take Virgin America right now and give the finger to all the US Airline CEOs. It's worth the few bucks more to be comfortable for 3-5 hours, IMHO.
lostand confused
2015 Apr 18, 4:37am
The seats are ridiculously small and Americans are ridiculously wide. These are not mutually exclusive observations.
Won't the plane tip over??
Tenpoundbass
2015 Apr 18, 7:01am
I think people should be charged based on how bad do they want to fly.
The seats should be auctioned and you shouldn't even be required to actually buy the ticket after you bidded it up to unaffordable territory.
Wait that's what we have now, they are called 401K investors, silly me!!!
Vicente
2015 Apr 18, 8:35am
I'm much more interested in China Airlines "Family Couch".
A lower leg rest, folds up to make a platform:
In the New Zealand SkyCouch, there are cuddly ladies:
Dan8267
2015 Apr 18, 4:43pm
I know getting charged by weight would really offend you, since you're so fat. But that's YOUR choice, why should I have to sit next to you and have YOUR fat rollover into my seat space?
Projecting much?
Strategist
2015 Apr 18, 9:05pm
Is this picture even real? No one can even get past the aisle if they have to use the restroom. How in the world can he even sit with one giant butt cheek in the seat and the other one blocking the aisle.
How in the world did he even get through the plane door?
I think the picture is a phony.
I really miss playing with the heads of some of the trolls patrick banned earlier.
Speaking of trolls, look who shows up, Mr. Spew and Run...
BTW, how are those CBO Medicare projection numbers coming along? Figured them out yet from your source?
Gave them to you twice directly from the original source, your senility is getting worse I see. You didn't even know there was an original source or you were to stupid to use google for find it. Then you couldn't figure it out even with step by step directions. Still laughing about the thought of you flailing around with the numbers while severely overtaxing your 4th grade math skills. Hint, it's not exponential.
Dan8267
2015 Apr 19, 12:06pm
Actually, I'll be driving right past your apartment on my way to the cruise ship in a few weeks. I'll wave to your fat ass as I pass by!!
Ah I see the problem. I live in a house and am 155 lbs at 5'11", so you have me confused with someone else, which isn't surprising since you have confused the following with a cruise ship.
Then again, you confused this for a news organization
This for a Kenyan
This for a wife
Dan8267
2015 Apr 19, 12:09pm
where you list a dog and a boat among your crowning achievements in life.
In CIC's defense, his love affair with his dog is epic. He's known as "old yeller" for a reason.
Dan8267
2015 Apr 19, 12:12pm
CIC's x-ray just came back from the lab. That stick up his butt is actually a dildo lodged too far up to remove.
Oh Bob, your "original source" had the exact same chart I posted that you called bullshit!
Just to recap, because your Dementia is really getting worse, I posted a chart showing how inaccurate the CBO projections were for Medicare. You called bullshit on that chart. So, you went out and Googled the report, and guess what, the report you found as proof my chart was bullshit, contained the SAME chart...
You really are suffering from limited mental capabilities. The report had the footnotes that explained how the numbers in the chart were derived. Something that is never included when you take a random chart off rightwingnut.com It's called the methodology. It's a big word but I have faith (frequently misplaced) you can actually go look it up. Not understand it of course, but at least look it up. Without knowing the methodology the numbers are meaningless. The fact they used nominal numbers (and skipped backing out additions to the programs) makes the chart bullshit. The chart is a political talking point, most certainly the original intention, but that's about it. Before your extreme reading comprehension problems get your panties in a large uncomfortable wet wad let me clarify for you that statement is not synonymous with me saying that the cost of medicare didn't exceed the cbo projections.
Explaining this to someone who has no clue what nominal means or why it matters is pretty useless exercise. But I'm an optimistic kind of guy. There is always hope, very slim hope, that even for the most advanced cases of dementia and/or rightwingnutitous (hard to distinguish) that learning can occur.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3043242/Dawn-superwide-plane-seat-Designer-wins-award-specialist-chair-obese-passengers-switch-booster-seat-toddlers-parents.html
Dawn of the supersize plane seat: Extra wide chair unveiled for overweight passengers (which doubles as booster for toddlers and parents)
A plane seat specifically targeted at making plane travel more comfortable for obese passengers and small children has won a prize for its innovation vision this week.
The adapted chair by SII Deutschland, beat off competition from 21 finalists to win the Passenger Comfort Hardware award at The Crystal Cabin Awards in Hamburg, Germany.
Sitting at one-and-a-half times the width of a standard seat, the SANTO seat (Special Accommodation Needs for Toddlers and Overweight Passengers) aims to improve aircrew procedure and passenger safety.
The adapted seat would make use of the usually wasted space at the back of aircrafts, where the fuselage narrows.
It would be a larger version of the aircraft chairs, meaning a wider passenger could comfortably and safety fit in the chair, without disrupting the neighbouring customer.
As the SANTO seat has an extra half a seat width, a baby seat could be fitted securely into the chair, with enough space for a regular customer to sit alongside without paying for an extra seat.
The designs were judged by a team of 24 experts, including panel chairwoman Melissa Raudebaugh, General Manager of Aircraft Experience at Delta Air Lines.
'Selecting the Crystal Cabin Award winners was a tough decision this year, as all finalists were of very high quality - ranging from renowned manufacturers to inspiring university concepts, which we will hopefully see flying soon', said Raudebaugh, as reported by PR Newswire.
Not only being space effective, the larger chair aims to address the on-going debate about whether to charge obese passengers for two seats.
Some American airlines have adopted this principle if customers are unable to buckle their seatbelt without the use of a seatbelt extender.
In 2011 a male passenger claims he was forced to stand for seven hours in the aisle of a plane on his US Airways flight, from Anchorage to Philadelphia, as a 400lb man took up a lot of his seat.
Another solution was put forward by Samoa Air in 2013 charging customers depending on their weight, in a bid to reduce fuel costs.
The Crystal Cabin Awards were awarded as part of Aircraft Interiors Expo which aims to showcase world's most advanced and creative ideas for the aircraft cabin.
The SANTO was not the only seat design aiming to solve the issue of comfort when it comes to overweight passengers. Expliseat also displayed wider seating designs to accommodate larger passnegers.
Prestigious aviation companies such as B/E Aerospace and Etihad Airways showed their concepts at the international trade fair of aircraft interiors which took place from April 14 to 16.
Other awarded ideas included B/E Aerospace's solar cell films on cabin windows, and a vacuum technology to reduce space of waste by lavatories and trash bags created by Hamburg University of Applied Sciences.