Over the past decades, airlines have crammed more seats into planes for profit. Neither the FAA nor the courts has done anything to stop the trend.
The court’s decision largely came down to the interpretation of a conjunction. The law reads: “Administration shall issue regulations that establish minimum dimensions for passenger seats on aircraft ...’ makes all the legal difference, said the three-judge panel.
Moreover, the court maintained that FlyersRights.org, a passenger advocacy group, had not proven that shrinking, tightly packed seats have negatively impacted safety on airplanes. “It’s not as if the FAA is refusing to look for that evidence,” according to the opinion. “It has run emergency-exit tests, and it has reviewed nearly 300 real-world exits. But each time, there is little to ‘no discernable difference in evacuation times due to seat dimensions.’”
But there is a big problem with how the FAA conducts safety simulations, according to U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth . “The testing conditions were completely unrealistic,” Duckworth toldThe senator pointed out that the FAA’s simulations were conducted with half-empty planes and passengers who were all able-bodied and under age 60. There were no children needing to be extracted from car seats. No senior citizens with bad knees. Nobody with disabilities. Nobody who didn’t speak English.
Last December, Duckworth introduced legislation that calls on the FAA to be more transparent.
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