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FAA's Failure to Stop Seat Shrinkage Targeted by Passenger Group

The Federal Aviation Administration said this week that it has “no evidence that there is an immediate safety issue necessitating rule-making at this time,” despite a court order that it examine whether shrinking legroom and cramped seats should be regulated. “Now that the FAA bureaucracy has again rejected any regulation of seat size and passenger space while ridiculing passenger discomfort and dismissing all safety and health concerns, the only likely recourse for the traveling public is by overwhelming public outcry to comment online in opposition to the FAA decision,” Paul Hudson, president of the nonprofit citizens group Flyers Rights, said in an emailed statement. The group sued the FAA in 2017, claiming emergency evacuations could be slowed by more tightly-packed seating after airlines began adding rows to their planes, enabled by new, slimmer seat designs. Partial Demonstrations Flyers Rights said in a press release that the FAA admits it doesn’t test airliner compliance w...