Editorial: Small airplane seats to finally get crucial FAA safety checks. Will this at last slow the shrinking?
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Oct 03, 2019
2 minutes
Airplane passengers loathe being crammed together in coach and seethe when seatbacks are reclined onto their laps. But are these crowded conditions actually unsafe? Americans soon should find out.
A 2018 funding bill gave the Federal Aviation Administration the authority to set minimum seat sizes as cabins shrink and body sizes grow. Federal regulations require
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