It might not sound particularly appealing on paper, but 23-year-old airplane seat designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente believes double-level seating is the future of economy flying.
You may have seen a photo of Núñez Vicente’s Chaise Longue Airplane Seat prototype floating around the internet.
Núñez Vicente envisages an airplane cabin in which the Chaise Longue is in the center, flanked by two rows of regular airplane seating.
He says he designed the Chaise Longue to solve the airplane seat conundrum – not make it worse.
The earlier iteration of the Chaise Longue Airplane Seat at AIX 2022.
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