The New 3-D Seat Design That Would Make Flying So Much Cooler

[gallery ids="143328,143329,143330,143331,143332,143333"] As Ben Orson, Managing Director of JPA Design told attendees at the Skift Forum this year, the next big trend in cabin design is 3-D seating. This design approach is defined as capitalizing on the vertical space of the aircraft to improve cabin density beyond what horizontal use of floor space can accomplish. You may already have enjoyed a flight in a 3-D design cabin, and not even know it. The more conservative interpretations of this design philosophy already feature on select aircraft. “There have been product concepts out there for years,” says Orson, “some of them quite wild, but the products which are entering the market now capitalize on vertical space in a way passengers will be barely aware of.” Passengers wouldn’t know they sat on 3-D design seats because: “The most recent generation of these products look like conventional seats as the passengers enter the cabin,” Orson explains. The princ