Patent ID: 7448575

Claim:
A seating arrangement in a sitting space of a transportation vehicle for passengers, comprising: at least two rows of seats arranged in two levels, one top row and a bottom row, with each row of seats including at least two seats, wherein each bottom-row seat has a seat back, wherein there is a space that a passenger can stand in front of each top-row seat and can access the corresponding top-row seat from the space, wherein a portion of the space in front of at least one top-row seat is below a portion of the seat back of at least one bottom-row seat, and wherein at least one of the bottom-row seats is slidably mounted on a floor of the transportation vehicle to allow the seat to move forwards and backwards to a limited extent, relative to the orientation of the seat, and to allow a passenger to get in and out of the seat to access another part of the transportation vehicle, and wherein every seat of the at least two rows of seats is arranged either in an acute or an obtuse angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the sitting space.