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\nFlyersRights Argued Before DC Circuit Judges Against FAA’s Failure To Regulate Seat Sizes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nFlyersRights is challenging the\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Federal Aviation Administration’s\u00a0(FAA) decision to not set a minimum airline seat size.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\nLast Friday, we argued in front of a panel of DC Circuit judges that the FAA needed to put up or shut up regarding the airline manufacturers’ “secret evacuation studies” that say current seat sizes are safe.<\/span><\/p>\n

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FlyersRights argued without any FAA rules,\u00a0airlines will keep shrinking seats\u00a0in pursuit of higher profits.<\/p>\n

\nFlyersRights explained during the hearing that seat pitch and width have shrunk over the past decade, endangering the emergency evacuation process and cramming too many passengers into too tight a situation, creating a risk of blood clots and deep vein thrombosis.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nThe FAA has evaded the publication of a study sought by FlyersRights that shows planes could be evacuated in 90 seconds, as required. This is because aircraft manufacturers claim it contains proprietary information. But FlyersRights argued there are well-established methods of entering the information into the court record without endangering trade secrets.<\/div>\n

\n“They can’t point to either a physical demonstration or computer simulation where this factor has been taken into account,” FlyersRights attorney Joseph E. Sandler of\u00a0Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock PC\u00a0said. “They say it has, but it’s secret evidence, they can’t show us the study.”<\/p>\n

\nThe FAA also dodged blood clot concerns, saying it’s not the agency with oversight over those sorts of health issues.<\/p>\n

\nPaul Hudson, president of FlyersRights, told\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Law360\u00a0\u00a0about 10 percent of passengers already can’t fit into\u00a0regular coach seats and airlines plan to push further\u00a0to create what he dubs “torture class.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\nHe noted that the panel had shown interest in getting affidavits from passengers who have posted complaints to public forums after it said FlyersRights hadn’t produced specific enough complaints to warrant consideration.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\nU.S. Circuit Judges Janice Rogers Brown, Patricia Millett and Nina Pillard sat on the panel for the D.C. Circuit.<\/div>\n

\nFlyersRights is represented by Joseph E. Sandler of Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock PC.<\/p>\n

\nThe federal defendants are represented by Benjamin C. Mizer, Mark B. Stern and Karen Schoen of the U.S. Department of Justice\u00a0and FAA in-house counsel Lorelei Peter.<\/div>\n

\nThe case is Flyers Rights Education Fund v. FAA et al., case number\u00a016-1101, in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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