New seat design wins Crystal Cabin award

[Altair]

This is an interesting idea but I wonder if status passengers will now think of this seat as a premium benefit, although it will be at the rear of the economy cabin?

Overweight passengers on planes: New seat design wins Crystal Cabin award
A new aircraft seat design aimed at making travel more comfortable for obese passengers, and small children, has taken out an award for innovation.
The Crystal Cabin Awards for aircraft cabin design were announced in Hamburg, Germany, this week, with 21 finalists considered by a panel of expert judges.
The self-proclaimed "Cabin Oscars" gave the top award in the "Passenger Comfort Hardware" category to SII Deutschland, who came up with a seat design that used wasted space to create seats that could be occupied by overweight passengers or adapted for small children.
The seat would occupy space at the rear of the aircraft cabin, where the fuselage narrows, and would be one-and-a-half times the width of a normal seat. The designers said that for overweight passengers the seat would be safer than a standard seat.

Design of seat image

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Also note on the Crystal Cabins website has more on the finalists and winners including EY "The Residence".