They will use that information, as mandated by last year's FAA reauthorisation, to determine how small airplane seats can safely get, and how close rows of seats can be to one another. Under federal regulations, planes must be able to be evacuated within 90 seconds. 123rf Under US federal regulations, planes must be able to be evacuated within 90 seconds. "I want to get the CEOs here someday, and I'm going to get some of those seats," he said during the hearing. Flyers Rights argued in a 2015 petition that average seat pitch had shrunk from 35 inches to 31 inches.

Source: Stuff September 30, 2019 21:45 UTC