A review of the FAA’s extremely lively public-comment period on airplane-seat dimensions, by schlife
Did you know that there is no federal standard regulating minimum seat dimensions on passenger airplanes? And that the Federal Aviation Administration is currently soliciting public comment on the matter? Well, both things are true. “The ghost of shrinking airplane seats is back,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote in a statement on Sunday. “The good news is we’ve vanquished this specter before.
“I don’t want to sit on the lap of a stranger because there’s not enough room to move by,” writes one commenter. The “again” is intriguing. How many times did this person sit on the lap of a stranger? Others used the opportunity to talk about sitting in a more general sense: “I object to the seats being able to lean so far back. If you are in the middle seat and the one in front of you leans all the way back, there is no way you can get out,” a person named Shirley writes. Another commenter, Lydia, shares the sentiment: “By the way, just eliminate reclining seats.”
Then there is the tall-person-rights contingent. Kevin writes: “I am a rather tall person — I stand at 6’3” — so the current standard of 31–32” is rather tight. I would like to see at least an additional 1” to 2” to provide me with the necessary room to move within the cabin.” He ends on a very fair point and a potential solution . A commenter named Mark appeared to use the forum just to brag about how tall his sons are: six-foot-five and six-foot-seven.
There was also the plight of the long-armed: “At 5’10” I also have long arms,” one commenter writes. “Narrowing the seats means i have no space to rest my arm other than my lap … Last week I flew direct from NYC to San Diego on a plane with smaller seats. On the flight out I accidentally turned off the volume for my neighbor’s TV with my arm on the arm rest.”“First of all it is too difficult to find the site to complain about the small seats on airplanes.
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