A U.S. appeals court on Monday heard arguments from a flyer advocacy group urging it to order the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to set minimum seat dimensions on passenger airplanes.
is among the industry’s tightest at 28 inches in coach class. The average for other mainline economy seats is around 30 to 31 inches."Currently there are no minimum seat dimensions," said Michael Kirkpatrick, a lawyer for FlyersRights.org. "Maybe they're going to codify the current seat dimensions and status quo for all conditions required for safety, then maybe there'll be a challenge on the merits.
The government argues the FAA does not need to issue rules if the regulations "are not required to protect passenger safety," while the flyers group said without judicial action "FAA will continue to treat the statutory requirement as a low priority that it can ignore indefinitely."11,700 comments. The comment period closes on Nov. 1.
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