Federal air safety officials are once again recommending that all flyers, even children under age 2, have a seat on flights, The New York Times reported Thursday.
In other words, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that children 2 and younger no longer be permitted to sit on the laps of adults during air flights. The NTSB made that suggestion to the Federal Aviation Administration on Wednesday.
In fact, the safety board is urging the FAA to require that tiny kids on all types of flights – private, commercial and charter — have their own seats.
Those 2 and younger “should be afforded the same level of protection as all other persons,” the NTSB said in its letter to the FAA.
But the federal agency has nixed that recommendation on prior occasions, claiming that parents who don’t have the money to buy separate tickets for their youngest kids would instead drive to their destinations, making the number of highway accidents increase, according to The Times.
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