FAA asks regionals to remove certain unsafe seats.

[Quickstatus]

What about cramped Y or so called Y-

https://www.usatoday.com/story/trav...2017/05/24/faa-airliner-seat-order/102075468/

 

[MEL_Traveller]

I wonder why the airlines are complaining? Surely this would be something you'd claim back from the manufacturer? (ie sale and manufacture of an unsafe seat, not fit for purpose?)

 

[eastwest101]

I wonder why the airlines are complaining? Surely this would be something you'd claim back from the manufacturer? (ie sale and manufacture of an unsafe seat, not fit for purpose?)

True - but a bit of a "pyhrric victory" for the airlines involved - even if they did get the cash quickly and without an extended legal dispute with the manufacturer what about all the aircraft with seats that the airlines aren't allowed to fly? We have already seen shortages of new seats affecting Airbus/Boeing and other manufacturer deliveries so I don't think the manufacturing capacity is there to replace the affected 10,000 seats at the blink of an eye, hence why I think the FAA seems to have given them a 5 year timeframe to work to.

Seems to affect quite a few of the Zodiac Slim or Slimplus, apparently the seats are on planes such as 717-200 and MD-90 , Bombardier’s CRJ700, CRJ900 and Q400 aircraft, and Embraer’s E170 and E190.

There is also a bit of discussion about the standard of the testing that resulted in some of these findings in the article.