Patent ID: 8720820

Claim:
An aircraft system, comprising: a fuselage having a generally circular cross-sectional shape and one or more passenger cabin portions, the individual cabin portions including— a floor connected to the fuselage; and a plurality of passenger seats attached to the floor in a configuration selected from a first seat-row arrangement and a second seat-row arrangement, each of which is implementable in the fuselage, wherein the first seat-row arrangement includes a twin aisle configuration and the second seat-row arrangement includes a single aisle configuration, and wherein the seats in either the first seat-row arrangement or the second seat-row arrangement have between a three abreast and a six abreast seating configuration, and wherein the individual seat-rows in either the first seat-row arrangement or the second seat-row arrangement include a first outboard portion adjacent to an inner wall at a first side of the fuselage and a second outboard portion adjacent to an inner wall at a second, opposite side of the fuselage, and wherein the lateral distance between the first outboard portion and the second outboard portion is about, but not greater than, 158 inches.