{"id":205738,"date":"2025-04-25T20:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/why-doesnt-usdot-regulate-airline-seating-passenger-comfort\/"},"modified":"2025-04-25T20:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T10:00:15","slug":"why-doesnt-the-usdot-regulate-airline-seating-and-passenger-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=205738","title":{"rendered":"Why Doesn&#8217;t The USDOT Regulate Airline Seating And Passenger Comfort?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depending on your favourite airline, you may feel like airplane seats have shrunk over the years. This raises the question as to why the         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"261425\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-department-of-transportation\/\"  >United States Department of Transportation<\/a><\/span> (DOT) doesn&#8217;t have minimum standards for passenger seating or comfort. The DOT, and subsequently, the FAA, enforces aviation safety rules, but it has continued dismissing calls for a standard seat size regulation. As a result, airlines continue to pack in as many seats as possible, especially low-cost carriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act severed government oversight of cabin conditions, carriers have waged a war on legroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,9668,13240,1112,11733,423,1777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-seating","category-commercial-aviation","category-dot","category-passenger-comfort","category-united-states","category-us-department-of-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205739,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205738\/revisions\/205739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}