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An improvement to a subsonic passenger aircraft is provided. The passenger aircraft has a fuselage including a main passenger seating deck (14) including forward, middle, and aft regions. The fuselage includes an upper forward deck (16) located above the main passenger seating deck forward region an

An improvement to a subsonic passenger aircraft is provided. The passenger aircraft has a fuselage including a main passenger seating deck (14) including forward, middle, and aft regions. The fuselage includes an upper forward deck (16) located above the main passenger seating deck forward region and accessible thereto. Both the main deck and upper forward deck having doors (30), (26) therein for passenger and supplies ingress and egress. The fuselage includes an aft upper deck (18) located above the main passenger seating deck aft region and accessible from the main deck. An upper middle region (20) is located above the main deck middle region. In one embodiment, the upper middle region (20) is of a height elevationally less than either of the forward and aft upper decks. The cross-sectional area of the fuselage at the upper middle region is less than the cross-sectional area of the fuselage at either the forward upper deck region or the aft upper deck region. In another embodiment, the forward upper cabin and the aft upper cabin are separate, longitudinally non-adjacent cabins for accommodating seated passengers.

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[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] In a passenger aircraft having a fuselage including a main passenger seating deck including forward, middle, and aft regions, the fuselage further including an upper forward deck l

[ The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows:] [1.] In a passenger aircraft having a fuselage including a main passenger seating deck including forward, middle, and aft regions, the fuselage further including an upper forward deck located above the main passenger seating deck forward region and accessible therefrom, both the main deck and upper forward deck having doors therein for passenger and supplies ingress and egress, the improvement comprising:(a) an aft upper deck located above the main passenger seating deck aft region and accessible from the main deck aft region; and(b) an upper middle region located above the main deck middle region and having a height that is elevationally less than either of the forward and aft upper decks;wherein the cross-sectional area of the fuselage at the upper middle region is less than the cross-sectional area of the fuselage at either the forward upper deck region or the aft upper deck region.