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FAA Says ‘No’ to Roomier Seats
27.07.2023 - 18:54 / smartertravel.com
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has responded to a court order seeking airline seat size minimums by saying it does not have a responsibility to regulate airline cabins in such a capacity. The court order was brought in response to action by an independent consumerist organization called Flyers Rights, which requested the FAA take on the issue.
This FAA response sidesteps rather than fully addresses the problem, and points to a larger issue when it comes to seat size: safety.
Related:3 Big Problems with the New House FAA Bill Comfort Is Not the (Only) IssueIn its response, the FAA attempted to deflect the focus on minimal seat size by emphasizing the issue of passenger comfort: The FAA is in the business of safety, not comfort, it says. And that’s true.
Although some of the complaints about tight seating have included the problem of minimum comfort, this is also a safety issue. The FAA rightfully insists that comfort is a matter between airlines and customers, not regulation—but dismissing the comfort issue doesn’t make the safety issue go away.
Skirting SafetyThe safety issue is stark: Over the years, air travelers have died in “survivable” accidents, killed not by impact but by their post-impact inability to get out of the airplane quickly enough to avoid being overcome by fire and smoke.
As a result of several accidents, in 1966 the FAA established guidelines for safe airplane evacuation, including rules for the number of emergency exits based on number of seats in each plane, a requirement that all passengers be able to get out of the plane in 90 seconds with half of the emergency exits unusable, and a rule that evacuation tests must be run. Nobody is challenging this basic fact.
Related:This Is the Safest Part of the Plane Evacuation Data Is ScantWhen safety rules were being formulated, aircraft manufacturers ran evacuation tests from mock-up cabins. Those tests are the only actual data available on evacuation times. As far as I know, new evacuation tests have not been run in at least two decades, despite the fact that seats are now packed in far more tightly than when the original tests were run.
Evacuation tests seem to have been discontinued for several reasons:
Even with controlled tests conducted inside a large hangar, test subjects suffered some serious personal injuries. There’s no way a controlled test can simulate the impact of panic or reduced visibility due to smoke without serious risk to test subjects. As far as I can tell, no tests can accurately examine the consequences of passengers’ taking their carry-on items when they leave a crashed plane, despite instructions not to do so. The FAA’s Claims Don’t Check OutThe FAA claims that even today’s ultra-tight seating is
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