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Are airplane seats too small? FAA soliciting public comments on minimum dimensions
(Thanks to Steve K.)
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What if they just increase the air pressure inside the cabin, that should shrink everyones butt a bit.
Posted by: David Puddy | July 30, 2022 at 09:36 AM
Since seats are getting smaller and smaller, and people are getting larger and larger, pretty soon only one person will fit on an airplane.
Posted by: Steverino | July 30, 2022 at 09:40 AM
Too small for what?
Posted by: cfjk | July 30, 2022 at 09:40 AM
Why worry ? It's only a few hours of hell.
Posted by: Clankie | July 30, 2022 at 09:51 AM
When you fly from east to west, time runs backward.
Posted by: Elaine Benes | July 30, 2022 at 09:55 AM
@Elaine: I’ve also noticed this phenomenon when riding a horse toward the setting sun.
Posted by: Jim | July 30, 2022 at 10:14 AM
Congress ordered the Federal Aviation Administration to establish minimum dimensions for airplane seats within a year when the agency's funding was renewed in October 2018. The FAA has yet to comply.
Psst - I'm no politician, but here's a suggestion: Next time, WITHHOLD their funding until they comply. Otherwise, what is their motivation?
For plus-size travelers especially, densifying airplane cabins can be both a comfort and safety issue.
Densifying .. the process of a reporter's brain losing grey matter at a sudden, alarming rate until they make up words to meet their deadline.
Posted by: MOTW | July 30, 2022 at 11:57 AM
Rumor has it, the FAA bureaucrat who came up with the idea of densifying airline seating, while in route to Sardinia.
Posted by: George Costanza | July 30, 2022 at 12:04 PM
It seems to me that FAA employees ought to be required to have flown at least once in their life. Then they wouldn't have to ask such a silly question.
Posted by: John "Ol' Chumbucket" Baur | July 30, 2022 at 01:45 PM
"...and Leon's getting LARGER!!
Posted by: Burt Macklin, FBI | July 30, 2022 at 03:12 PM
I recently traveled in a Delta CRJ900 exit row window seat. It was not comfortable. The requirements for occupying such a seat are that you be able to lift and throw a 37-pound hatch in the event of an emergency, and ideally, that you not weigh more than 37 pounds yourself.
Posted by: AmoebaStampede | July 30, 2022 at 07:20 PM
Loud guffaw @MOTW! I’ll be laughing at your definition of densifying all day.
Posted by: Mad Hatter | July 30, 2022 at 10:16 PM