I have always thought that the "pull-down" style center aisle overhead bins were only found on Boeings and Airbuses always had "lift-up lid" style bins. But a while ago I saw some pics of some A interiors and noticed that they have "pull-down" bins as well, though very rare. I think they are on SQ and EK A345 and on some older A340 of TAP or some other EU airline.
So I just wonder why was these overhead bins not too common with Airbus operators? Were they not very effective? Not nice (ones on SQ/EK A345 were nice)? Expensive? Any particular reasons?
Some pics to illustrate (from a.net):
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/903195/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/778179/M/
So I just wonder why was these overhead bins not too common with Airbus operators? Were they not very effective? Not nice (ones on SQ/EK A345 were nice)? Expensive? Any particular reasons?
Some pics to illustrate (from a.net):
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/903195/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/778179/M/
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