The House voted Wednesday to direct the federal government to set a minimum size for airline seats, bar passengers from being kicked off overbooked planes, and consider whether to restrict animals on planes. Those and other passenger-related provisions were included in a bill to authorize Federal Aviation Administration programs for five years. The FAA bill is also notable for what is not included. Among them:— It gives the FAA one year to set minimum measurements for airline seats and the distance between rows. House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Penn., backed away from a plan to shift control of the nation’s air-traffic-control system from the FAA to a private corporation.

Source: National Post September 26, 2018 22:19 UTC