I have wide shoulders and airline travel is misery for me (and probably the people next to me). Of course, I’m just over six foot, so leg room is almost as bad.
This design looks like a better solution to me than typical airline seats.
Along the same vein: if every other person is turned upside down then, again, the symbiotic geometry arrangement provides an economic ergonomic solution.
Ugh.
I would like to poke a pencil in the eye of whoever dreamed this up - it’s so awful that no doubt every budget airline is taking note.
It’s not like you’ll have to fly like that. People who get the cheapest ticket will likely end up sitting like that (or standing up once that’s approved) whereas people willing to pay more than rock bottom prices will have more comfortable seating.
In other words, the vast majority of air travelers will sit like this, no matter how much they whinge.
Didn’t RyanAir try to patent standing room only flights a couple years back?
They have a fee for that.
Let me guess: It was the 22-hour Los Angeles to Sydney flight, right? 
Gotta love the airlines. Is there any other business that strives as hard to make using their services as miserable an experience as legally possible?
Private prisons?
What’s the price differential?
The very fact that this is being discussed and considered means we are already in hell. That airlines consider it a reasonable goal to FIT AS MANY PEOPLE INTO THE SPACE AS POSSIBLE should exempt them from any sane discussion with adult human beings. And the fact that many here are discussing the merits of this as a possibility shows how brainwashed we have become.
Airlines: “Would you like the red hot iron poker up your butthole, or would you rather have the boiling oil poured down your throat? Take you time…”
Customer: “Hmmmm, let me think about it for a minute. How much did you say each one costs?”
Yep. It’s not clear how serious they were, though.
What would a non-brainwashed discussion look like?
What goal do you wish airlines had? What trade-offs are involved?
If you are unsatisfied with this seating arrangement, would you be willing to pay more for business class? When it was out of your own pocket, have you ever paid for more than coach?
Round tubes? Hexagonal will save more space.
The airlines’ highest priority, like any other corporation, is to turn as large a profit as possible. Period.
They are legally obligated to assure your safety to a certain degree.
However, they are under no obligation to assure your comfort, happiness, or dignity. For years now customers have been voting with their wallets: “To hell with in-flight meals, legroom, and free checked bags: we want the absolute cheapest tickets we can get.” Airlines have obliged. People are getting into fisticuffs these days over petty shit like reclining seatbacks, and still they clamor for cheaper tickets yet. The airlines will give you whatever you’re willing to pay for. Want dirt-cheap tickets? Can do," say the airlines, but brace yourself for standing configurations, or even the Economy Class Cabin Hexagon described in the OP.
We have no business blaming the airlines for moving in this direction; they are giving their customers what they (in the aggregate) have asked for, i.e. lowest-cost fares.
Yeah, every now and again, O’Leary decides Ryanair isnt getting enough free advertising and announces some outrageous bullshit idea that can be used as a springboard to talk about how cheap they are.
I’m tall (5’10") for a female and my family members are even taller. We are all so very tired of a method of transportation that requires the jaws of life to shoehorn us into and out of the seating. I’d much rather face someone if it meant I’d get a wee bit more legroom. And my 6’5" and 6’7" sons would love it even more.
So… how much did you pay for your last airline ticket? I’m guessing you aren’t chartering your own private jets or paying for first class.
You’re like the guy at the butcher counter arguing that if ground beef is $3/lb then the filet mignon shouldn’t be $20/lb.
Well, this is certainly sufficient reason to fork over the 40,000 bucks for a first class ticket on an Emirates Airlines A380, and fly in the 1st class suite (includes private shower). Yeah, 40k.
I wonder if they’d realize the check was bad before the flight left?
Yes, but people also don’t travel for 4-6 hours on the subway without any option of getting out or moving.
It does actually look like you get more space than currently offered, at least in the first image.
From looking at the diagram, I can’t tell how you would get from the middle seat, out to the aisle, to go to the rest room. 
Edited to add: Perhaps you’re meant to straddle the person in the aisle seat? So I assume they’ll be charging a premium for the aisle seats then.