to protect babies and toddlers on aircraft. The same seats should be mandatory in aircraft as is required in autos.
http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/ayar2.html
http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/ayar2.html
to protect babies and toddlers on aircraft. The same seats should be mandatory in aircraft as is required in autos.
http://www.ntsb.gov/safety/ayar2.html
The time has come(long past, really) to get the govt out of family issues and let parents decide the risk associated with their kids. If a parent wants to risk an airplane flight without restraints on the child, then so be it. If they want to buy an extra ticket, child safety seat, and buckle them in they can do that. If the parent wants to alternatively go by ground, or sea, or walk they can do that.
Go away with your laws, rules, regulations for children outside of the workplace. Just go away.
It's interesting to read FAAs take on that. By requiring car/plane seats, parents would be required to purchase an extra ticket. That price might be enough to cause parents to choose to drive instead of fly, and the risk of accident and injury is way higher when driving than when traveling on a airline.
I fail to understand why this has not been required by the FAA.
Is there some rule that I'm not aware of that prohibits people from using car seats on aircraft?
Is there some rule that I'm not aware of that prohibits people from using car seats on aircraft?
Good god, anyone who has ever tried to fly with a 1 year old on their lap is already buying another seat or driving.
How about something as simple as seat belts on buses. We just had a tragic bus vs truck accident yesterday near Sacramento where 8 kids died. It seems weird to me they want to put child seats on planes that very very rarely have accidents and they still don't require seat belts on buses.
How about something as simple as seat belts on buses. We just had a tragic bus vs truck accident yesterday near Sacramento where 8 kids died. It seems weird to me they want to put child seats on planes that very very rarely have accidents and they still don't require seat belts on buses.
I've never understood this, nor am I comfortable riding on tour buses without seat belts. Riding along with at 65 mph with a quite-possibly-fatigued driver at the helm never gives me a warm-fuzzy.
I believe many of the Britax seats are too wide for a coach airline seat.
Why would you want to require seats to protect babies when you support abortion? Seriously, I'm curious. How does that work?
Hasn't the time come to protect the unborn?
No, the issue is it is not required. And IF they required it, anyone traveling with an 'infant in arms' would be required to buy a separate ticket for the car seat.
Good god, anyone who has ever tried to fly with a 1 year old on their lap is already buying another seat or driving. If they can sit up, it is VERY uncomfortable.
As if coach seats aren't uncomfortable enough, without a car seat, you get to get kicked in the sensitive parts every few minutes.
Well, you haven't been satisfied with the answer the last 500 times it's been brought up, so let's give it a go for #501.
Actually, there is.
See 14 CFR 91.107(a)(3)(iii)(B).
The upshot is that most -- but not all -- true car seats are legal. I have yet to see a legal booster.
Not really. You still see plenty of folks who don't want to spend the money and suck up the discomfort/inconvenience in order to save a buck.
Actually, there is.
See 14 CFR 91.107(a)(3)(iii)(B).
The upshot is that most -- but not all -- true car seats are legal. I have yet to see a legal booster.
I'm fine with that, except we also then need to remove the threat of legal action against the airline/automobile/cruise line if the child is injured due to the parents' decision.
The purpose of the booster is align the shoulder belt - no shoulder belt, no need for the booster.
and the feet don't fit because of the seat in front
It's interesting that it's been 1.5 hours since AP threw another drive by bombshell and left without defending her position. I supposed I should not be surprised by this. She demands that the government mandate a expensive solution to a non-existent problem and then does not defend her demands.
I'm not comfortable with people carrying on more junk in commercial flights.
... airlines could have a small stock of cheap seats available like the rental car companies have, and charge $15/flight to use them.
I's be interested in knowing how many lap children actually are injured or killed on commercial airline flights every year (other than in disasters which would have been unsurvivable in any case). I personally have never heard of any. Absent such evidence, this sounds to me like a solution in search of a problem.
-Rich