{"id":165399,"date":"2023-06-08T17:23:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/unbelievably-excited"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:54:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T17:54:58","slug":"unbelievably-excited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/unbelievably-excited","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unbelievably excited\u2019 \u2014 wheelchair users react to new Delta airplane seat design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unbelievably-excited.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new airplane seat concept that allows wheelchair users to stay in their own chair throughout a flight was revealed this week by a subsidiary of US airline Delta, a move welcomed as a \u201chuge step\u201d by potential customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnbelievably excited,\u201d is how power wheelchair user and avid traveler Cory Lee described his reaction after a working prototype of the design was demonstrated by Delta Flight Products (DFP) at the Aircraft Interiors Expo (AIX) in Hamburg, Germany, a symposium spotlighting airplane cabin innovations.<\/p>\n<p>DFP\u2019s concept seamlessly converts to and from a traditional airplane seat. The built-in seat folds up to allow a wheelchair to be docked into place. The seat would be installed into pre-existing aircraft seat track systems, so would not involve any structural change to the airplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new airplane seat concept that allows wheelchair users to stay in their own chair throughout a flight was revealed this week by a subsidiary of US airline Delta, a move welcomed as a \u201chuge step\u201d by potential customers. \u201cUnbelievably excited,\u201d is how power wheelchair user and avid traveler Cory Lee described his reaction after [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169742,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165399\/revisions\/169742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}