{"id":132987,"date":"2022-11-01T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=132987"},"modified":"2022-11-01T23:27:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T23:27:17","slug":"senators-urge-faa-to-bar-further-shrinkage-of-airplane-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2022\/11\/senators-urge-faa-to-bar-further-shrinkage-of-airplane-seats.html","title":{"rendered":"Senators urge FAA to bar further shrinkage of airplane seats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Six Democratic U.S senators urged the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday to bar airlines from further shrinking airplane seat size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senators including Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Richard Blumenthal said airlines have been shrinking seat sizes since at least the 1990s \u2014 with seat pitch, which determines leg room, decreasing from 32 to 28 inches, and seat width decreasing from 19 to as little as 16 inches, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/usa-faa-schumer\/update-1-schumer-other-senators-urge-faa-to-bar-further-shrinkage-of-airplane-seats-idUSL1N31X1NJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>\u2192 <a href=\"https:\/en\/2022\/10\/united-jaguar-launch-gate-to-gate-airport-transfer-service.html\">United and Jaguar Launch All-Electric Gate-to-Gate Airport Transfer Service.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe urge the FAA to comprehensively review the safety factors impacting seat pitch, width, and length and ensure that such safety factors take into account the entirety of the American public \u2013 including children, senior citizens, individuals with disabilities, and others,\u201d the senators wrote to FAA Acting Administrator Billy Nolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe FAA should immediately issue a moratorium prohibiting additional reduction in seat size,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 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