Aircraft passenger seat fixing systems and arrangements

An array of passenger seating arrangements in or for an aircraft cabin, the seating arrangements being arranged in laterally adjacent pairs facing in mutually opposite directions generally parallel to a longitudinal direction of the aircraft cabin, each pair comprising a first seating arrangement located adjacent an aisle and a second seating arrangement located past the first seating arrangement from the aisle, each said first seating arrangement comprising a first housing arranged behind a seat, and a second housing arranged around a foot rest forward of the seat;

• wherein each said seat is convertible between a substantially upright seating position and a substantially flat, horizontal bed position extending generally in the direction in which the seating arrangement faces;
• wherein the foot rest of the first seating arrangement forms part of a flat horizontal bed in the flat, horizontal bed position;
• wherein the second seating arrangement is accessible by a passenger from the aisle along a path between the first housing of the first seating arrangement of the pair and the second housing of a first seating arrangement of an adjacent pair, without stepping between the seat and the foot rest of the first seating arrangement;
• wherein each of the seating arrangements of the pair comprises a seat portion around a seat and a forward portion forward of the seat, wherein the seat portion is wider than the forward portion;
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• wherein the seating arrangements of the pair are aligned such that the seat portion of one of the seating arrangements of the pair is laterally adjacent to the forward portion of the other one of the seating arrangements of the pair.