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This year’s Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, which was originally scheduled for the first week of April, was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But that hasn't stopped the industry from thinking of solutions that might help passengers fly again safely.
Aviointeriors SpA has released two designs, the first of which features a middle seat turned backward and surrounded by a plastic shield, which would give all passengers better social distancing and would give middle seat occupants more room. The Italian aircraft seat manufacturer dubbed the seat Janus, after the two-faced Roman god.
‘Janus’ is a two-faced seat, in fact this arrangement allows all three passengers to be separated with a shield made of transparent material that isolates them from each other, creating a protective barrier for everyone.
Though Aviointeriors says the Janus seat could use the same cabin footprint as ordinary seats, the forward/aft configuration raises questions as to whether it would increase difficulty of food-service in-flight as well as evacuation in an emergency. Greater row separation could address these questions, and give passengers more legroom.
Airlines might embrace that prospect more readily now, since they could still have higher load factors with this approach—eliminating one or two rows to compensate—than they would have with social distancing configurations that leave each middle seat empty.
