Passenger seating arrangement having access for disabled passengers

A method of providing access, for a disabled passenger, to a seat unit in a passenger seating arrangement comprising:

• providing the passenger seating arrangement, the passenger seating arrangement having a column of seat units located adjacent an aisle, the column of seat units and the aisle both extending in a longitudinal direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of an aircraft cabin, the column comprising a plurality of seat units, arranged consecutively along the longitudinal direction, each seat unit comprising a plurality of moveable seating elements orientated at an acute angle to the longitudinal direction and facing inwardly towards the aisle, each seat unit comprising a foot-receiving structure for receiving the feet of a passenger, the spacing between the foot-receiving structure of a first seat unit of the plurality of seat units and the foot-receiving structure of a second seat unit adjacent to the first seat unit in the column defining an access opening to the first seat unit;
• arranging the access opening of the first seat unit to have a first width for access by an able-bodied passenger;
• and
• temporarily configuring the first seat unit into a disabled-access configuration in which the access opening is temporarily widened from the first width to a second width, greater than the first width, for enabling the disabled passenger to access the first seat unit.