Schumer squeezes FAA on shrinking airline seats

Published November 27, 2018 12:00am ET



Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is running out of patience with the Federal Aviation Administration. The agency was instructed to set minimum seat sizes in legislation President Trump signed into law in October.

“The #1 travel complaint I get from airline customers is shrinking seats and — like the seats themselves — the FAA’s timeline to tackle this issue is getting smaller and smaller with each passing day,” Schumer said in a statement this month.

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