article_snippet.sent: A plane seat specifically targeted at making plane travel more comfortable for obese passengers and small children has won a prize for A plane seat specifically targeted at making plane travel more comfortable for obese passengers and small children innovation vision this week.
article_snippet.sent: The SANTO seat by SII Deutschland is larger than usual seats, and makes use of space at the back of aircraft where the fuselage narrows .
article_snippet.sent: The SANTO seat by SII Deutschland would make use of the usually wasted space at the back of aircraft, where the fuselage narrows.
article_snippet.sent: It would be a larger version of the aircraft chairs, meaning a wider passenger could comfortably and safety fit in the chair, without disrupting the neighbouring customer.
article_snippet.sent: The seat won the prize as part of the Aircraft Interiors Expo in Hamburg, and addresses the issue of the safety for obese passengers .
article_snippet.sent: Not only being space effective, the chair aims to address the on-going debate about whether  to charge obese passengers for two seats.
article_snippet.sent: Some American airlines have adopted this principle if customers are unable to buckle customers seatbelt without the use of a seatbelt extender.
article_snippet.sent: In 2011 a male passenger claims he was forced to stand for seven hours in the aisle of a plane on he US Airways flight, from Anchorage to Philadelphia, as a 400lb man took up a lot of a 400lb man seat.
article_snippet.sent: Another solution was put forward by Samoa Air in 2013 charging customers depending on customers weight, in a bid to reduce fuel costs.
article_snippet.sent: Visitors look at Expliseat wide seats weighing four kilos at  the Aircraft Interiors Expo 2014.
article_snippet.sent: Expliseat also displayed wider seating designs to accommodate larger passnegers.
article_snippet.sent: Special baggage lockers, for example, and a staggered seating concept, provide more space in the aircraft.
article_snippet.sent: The normally wasted space at the rear of the aircraft cabin, where the fuselage narrows, is used by a special seat, one-and-a-half times the width of a normal seat.