airplane seats

Premium economy is the cabin for you if you can afford to spend more for a few extra inches on your seat and for your legs.

Zodiac Seats France, an airplane parts manufacturer, filed a patent for the “Economy Class Hexagon Cabin,” a seating design that ingeniously takes advantage of the simple physical reality that people—at least most of them—are wider at their shoulders than at their hips, staggering adjacent passengers in the same row in different directions could fit more people in the same amount of space by allowing shoulder space to overlap.

Premium economy is the cabin for you if you can afford to spend more for a few extra inches on your seat and for your legs.

Zodiac Seats France, an airplane parts manufacturer, filed a patent for the “Economy Class Hexagon Cabin,” a seating design that ingeniously takes advantage of the simple physical reality that people—at least most of them—are wider at their shoulders than at their hips, staggering adjacent passengers in the same row in different directions could fit more people in the same amount of space by allowing shoulder space to overlap.