The United Airlines new business class "Polaris" seat design is special

An airline based in Chicago, USAUnited AirlinesHowever, on June 2, 2016 a new business class "Polaris(Polaris, North Star) "announced. This Polaris seating design performs product design and transport related designAcumenHas adopted a patented "unprecedented unique design" and may cause a major change in the aviation industry.

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You can see how the new business class "Polaris" newly announced by United Airlines is, by seeing the following movie.

United Commercial - Polaris Business Class - YouTube


The rooms of Polaris are like this. The seat in the passenger is tied up with the adjacent seat, and individual space is securely secured.


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As all the seats face the aisle, you do not have to pass in front of other passengers whenever you stand.


Amenity such as bedding is custom made.


LCD monitor on the front of the seat.


Sitting on the seat it looks something like this. The table is arranged one by one at the front and at the side of the seat.


The seat is full flat and it is designed to be slightly angled from the aisle. It is also a point that the seat is designed so that the head moves away from the aisle during sleep.


In addition, amenity for better sleeping is enriched.


Since the seat is 6.6 feet (about 2 meters) at full flat, you can relax and enjoy the air travel.


It is a seat dedicated to improving the quality of sleep of passengers, so if you actually ride it may be asleep as you sleep.


As you can see from the movie, the Polaris room sheets are spacious enough to lie down and lie down. This seat design is called "Herringline" and Acumen has a patent. Unlike usual, the unique design that "there are seats with a slight angle from the aisle direction" seems to be a design for efficiently using the space inside the room even a little.

The seats are arranged as shown below, and by placing the seat and the seat so as to overlap, it is designed so that everything faces the aisle while securing a vertically long space.


Acumen, who invented this design, says "Polaris will have a major impact on the aviation industry." Polaris also said that it will provide a level of comfort not found in traditional business class by effectively utilizing space.

Mock-up of seat design is as follows.


Herringline designed to give major changes to business class seats manufactured by major manufacturers will be adopted for the first time at United Airlines Polaris. In United Airlines, he seems to have done a 5-day sleep test with Boeing 787 to decide whether to adopt "innovative seat design".

The following image is a memo of the seat design plan proposed by Acumen's Ian Driver CEO.


In addition, United Airlines reveals that it will develop a new business class Polaris in passenger aircraft such as Boeing 787, Airbus A 350 and Boeing 777.