There are no minimum standards for the size of airline seats. The FAA might change that.
Over the last 15 years or so, airlines have found a new way to drive up revenue: squeezing more seats into each plane.
The U.S. Department of Transportation does not impose any standards for seat legroom, width or comfort. Instead, the federal government allows airlines to cram any number of seats into a cabin, in whatever size, as long as passengers can evacuate in an emergency within 90 seconds. It’s a standard that has been in place since the 1990s.— what the airline industry refers to as “pitch"— to accommodate more seats per cabin.
The nation’s flight attendants are calling for the Federal Aviation Administration to set seat standards. France-based Airbus suggested a few years ago that the industry should at least adopt a comfortable standard for the seat width. The plane manufacturer released a study that says a minimum seat width of 18 inches improves passengers’ sleep quality by 53%, compared with 17-inch-wide seats.The summer travel season has been chaotic. Industry insiders put much of the blame on airline executives who scheduled thousands of extra flights to cash in on demand.
An airline traveler from Arcadia also suggested in a submission that the FAA needs to impose seat standards “before the airlines have us all standing like cattle on a transport!”Seat size and legroom is a concern for fliers with disabilities, said Eric Lipp, executive director of the Open Doors Organization, a nonprofit that promotes the rights of travelers with disabilities.
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