New seat designs are ten a-penny but they forget the costs of changing to a new seating and the possible impact on the resale value.
As to boarding? All the 'systems' fail because pax will no longer wait to be called. As soon as special boarding is done, they cram forward and the agents have learnt not to send them to the back of the queue. The agression shown by pax can be high - irrespective of whether there is assigned seating or not.
Pax will not go back to the dutiful lines and waiting to be called of the 1980s. New seating would make NO difference.
Last edited by PAXboy; 24th Sep 2015 at 15:18.