Patent ID: 8998139
Filing Date: 2015-04-07
Classification: B64D

Abstract:
1. A passenger seating arrangement in an aircraft cabin, the seating arrangement comprising a multiplicity of substantially identical pairs of seat units, the pairs of seat units being located directly behind one another, each pair of seat units comprising an aisle-seat unit bordering an aisle to one side, and a non-aisle-seat unit positioned to an opposite side of the aisle-seat unit, the aisle-seat units and the non-aisle-seat units being substantially the same length, all the aisle-seat units facing in a same, first, direction, all the non-aisle-seat units facing in a same, second, direction, each seat unit being configurable between a seating configuration and a flat-bed configuration, each seat unit having a longitudinal axis, the longitudinal axes of the non-aisle-seat units being arranged in-line with one another, and being substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the aircraft cabin, and the non-aisle-seat units being arranged substantially end-to-end such that there is no passenger access space between the non-aisle seat units, wherein the longitudinal axis of the aisle-seat unit of each pair of seat units is angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the non-aisle-seat unit, so as to provide a passenger access path, the passenger access path being angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the non-aisle seat unit, and the passenger access path linking the non-aisle-seat unit of a pair, with the aisle.