FAA to test if U.S. airplane seats are too tight to quickly evacuate passengers
WASHINGTON - Amid complaints that airline seats have become too small to accommodate the average American, the U.S. government will test how fast passengers can evacuate a plane in setting minimum seat sizes for the first time.
Seat pitch - the distance from one seat back to the next - on low-cost carriers Spirit Airlines Inc and Frontier Airlines is among the industry’s tightest at 28 inches in coach class. The average for other mainline economy seats is around 31 inches. In July 2018 -- before the legislation was passed -- the FAA said in response to a petition filed with a federal appeals court that it would not regulate seat size. Airlines’ margins could suffer if they had to reconfigure planes to create more space.
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