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Shrinking seats: Senate beats back effort to regulate airline seat size [View all]
Source: Washington Post
Shrinking seats: Senate beats back effort to regulate airline seat size
By Ashley Halsey III April 7 at 3:43 PM
The battle over the shrinking airline seat was renewed on Capitol Hill Thursday as the Senate struck down an effort to end the leg and knee squeeze.
By a 54-to-43 vote on the Senate floor, a measure was defeated that would have kept airlines from reducing seat size and the distance between rows for 30 days. Meantime, the Federal Aviation Administration would have had 180 days to come up with regulations on the width, padding and leg room each seat should provide. The measure, proposed as an amendment to an FAA reauthorization the Senate is considering, also would have required airlines to prominently display on their websites just how much space they allowed for each passenger.
The 1.7 million Americans who fly within the United States each day have gotten bigger. Almost 79 million Americans are obese — 35 percent of the population — and the number is projected to reach 50 percent by 2030.
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By Ashley Halsey III April 7 at 3:43 PM
The battle over the shrinking airline seat was renewed on Capitol Hill Thursday as the Senate struck down an effort to end the leg and knee squeeze.
By a 54-to-43 vote on the Senate floor, a measure was defeated that would have kept airlines from reducing seat size and the distance between rows for 30 days. Meantime, the Federal Aviation Administration would have had 180 days to come up with regulations on the width, padding and leg room each seat should provide. The measure, proposed as an amendment to an FAA reauthorization the Senate is considering, also would have required airlines to prominently display on their websites just how much space they allowed for each passenger.
The 1.7 million Americans who fly within the United States each day have gotten bigger. Almost 79 million Americans are obese — 35 percent of the population — and the number is projected to reach 50 percent by 2030.
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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dr-gridlock/wp/2016/04/07/shrinking-seats-senate-beats-back-effort-to-regulate-airline-seat-size/
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