Airplane Seats Keep Shrinking as FAA Delays Overdue Rules
Excerpts from TheStreet
The FAA is still open to hearing your thoughts about airline seats, as the agency is two months into a three-month public comment period. Anyone can weigh in on the matter until November 1, right over here.
The FAA said it is looking for opinions “minimum seat dimensions necessary for the safety of air passengers,” as at the moment safety, not comfort, is its main concern.
But Flyers Rights has filed a 26-page rulemaking petition, calling for the FAA to set minimum seat standards “that accommodate 90 to 92% of the population,” as reported by The Points Guy, and has also called for a strict moratorium "on further seat size shrinkage."
Flyers Rights is concerned that the FAA still hasn’t followed through with the 2018 FAA Reauthorization Act, stating that the organization has concerns about customer safety, in the case of evacuation or a case where passengers have to assume a brace position for a crash landing, as well as the part small seats can factor into deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in flyers.
