Efforts Underway to Make Airline Seats Larger Again?
Excerpts from CBS17.com
As we approach the busy holiday travel period, more and more people will be flying, crammed into seats that are smaller than they were five years ago. However, one advocacy group is trying to stop seat shrinkage and even hopes to start making airline seats bigger again. When you board an aircraft, it’s a roll of the dice as to what size seat you’ll get because there seems to be no uniformity in seat sizes.
“It’s up to each carrier because there are no seat regulations,’’ Paul Hudson, the president of the non-profit FlyersRights organization, said. FlyersRights claims airline seat sizes have been shrinking for the last 35 years, according to its data. It said. at one time, seats used to be 21 inches across. Now, they are 17-18 inches wide. Legroom (or pitch) used to be 35 inches, now it’s as little as 28 inches.
