At one point all economy class airline seats had built-in recline. Today, there are entire seat models that simply don't have the option. So what happened to make reclining seats disappear in some places?
So, what if seats didn't recline?
An early adopter was UK airline Jet2, a European package vacation company, which in 2009 chose a pre-reclined seat from then-upstart seatmaker Acro that revolutionized how airlines think about seats.The lack of recline was one of them, but another was the innovative way that the seat was sculpted out of the seat pan and backrest into a fixed, concave"bucket" shape.
Over the last decade and a bit, a variety of seatmakers have innovated around pre-reclined seats and other ways to save those inches. The special layouts Hiller mentions are often what the industry calls"max pax," the maximum passenger count certified for an aircraft. That's currently 244 passengers on an all-economy Airbus A321neo narrowbody, an airplane on which some airlines with spacious business class seats up front have under 150 passengers.
Over the last few years, the slimline seats that were previously mostly used by low-cost carriers have been finding their way onto full-service airlines as well -- not least because the full-service airlines are competing directly against lower-cost competitors.
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