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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has superseded an airworthiness directive (AD) that addressed a fault with both pilots’ seats on Boeing 747 family aircraft, ranging from the 747-200 to the ...

Millions of Americans will honor a holiday tradition this week: they will squeeze into tiny seats aboard a jet aircraft, fly elsewhere to stuff themselves with food, and then squeeze back inside a jet ...

Declining seat space for passengers on commercial airplanes, coupled with the growing prevalence of larger passengers in the U.S., has provoked concerns in recent years over the lack of regulations ...