The thickness of seat armrests have been drastically reduced to less than an arm’s thickness of any average built person.
BHPian anjan_c2007 recently shared this with other enthusiasts:
During a recent flight to Udaipur by Indigo Airlines, I travelled by a brand new Airbus A 320 neo and was amazed to check out the thickness of the seat padding used in the airplane. The primary purpose of the padding is to evenly distribute a passenger’s weight, relieve pressure points, and provide comfort during prolonged sittings. It provided none of these. I am not sure whether they are using coir foam as padding material? And to my surprise, the thickness of this padding was around 4 to 4.5 cms and no more. To add to the woes, the thickness of seat armrests have been drastically reduced to less than an arm’s thickness of any average built person. And one central armrest in each row is supposed to be shared by the aisle and the middle row seated passenger.
The armrest
The airplane
I am quite fit and not overweight but felt uncomfortable while undergoing the journey. The differently abled, overweight and less fit passengers must be finding these seats much more discomfort causing.
On the contrary, I found the seats (above three images) of the Indigo bus (Tata make) for pickup and drop to the airport from the aircraft, much more well padded with thicker and better quality foam and upholstery material.
We travel by these buses for a maximum of 5 to 10 minutes. And by those new Indigo A320 neo’s for an hour or much more.
It is not Airbus SE, Toulouse’s (formerly Airbus Industrie) fault. It’s solely the airline’s fault which orders such freak and cattle class, human repelling seats of never seen before configurations to reduce initial costs, reduce aircraft’s kerb weight, reduce fuel consumption, add more seats within the fuselage and charge amazing prebooking premiums from gullible passengers for those “coveted seats.”
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