they are under a mandate to see whether seat size could slow an evacuation. but many focused on comfort. the idea is that the more people you can jam into a plane the more money you ll make. flyers rights president, paul hudson, said airlines are trying to squeeze out more profit. six senators told the faa to act urgently and not wait for the seats to get smaller. so i decided to put them to the test. two things. a ticket and tape measure. reporter: on this united airlines flight, legroom was right at the industry standard, 30 inches. but it all depends on the airline. legroom can get even tighter on ultra low cost carriers. 27 inches is what we saw on this allegiant flight. seats that are wider would make
i can t imagine seats or aisles being smaller than they are today. reporter: now the federal aviation administration is considering whether to stop airlines from making seats smaller. leave everything, come this way! reporter: the agency is under a congressional mandate to study whether seat size could slow an evacuation, but in 26,000 public comments, many focused on comfort. the idea is that the more people you can jam into a plane, the more money you will make. reporter: flyers wrights president hudson writes they re trying to squeeze out more money. i decided to put airlines to the test. two things necessary for this little experiment of our own. a ticket and a tape measure. on this united airlines flight leg room was right at the industry standard, 30 inches, but it all depends on the airline. leg room can get even tighter on
this issue in total. remember, this is not going to happen any time soon. more seats on a plane equals more money for the airline, but less seats and more room for you might make your ticket more expensive. there you go. the never ending debate on seat size. 2 inches how generous of spirit airlines. they ll probably charge you for the two inches. tired of all these seats on the you know what plane. we have new cnn reporting on what the justice department may do about the sprawling investigations into former president trump if he runs again. new this morning we are getting word of south korea scrambling jets after a new provocation by north korea.
i can t imagine seats or aisles being smaller than they are today. now the federal aviation administration is considering whether to stop airlines from making seats smaller. leave everything and come this way. reporter: the agency is under a congressional mandate to study whether seat size could slow on evacuation. but in 26,000 public comments, many focused on comfort. the more people that you could jam into a plane, the more money you ll make. reporter: flyers s rights said they re trying to squeeze out more profit. this week six u.s. senators told the faa to act urgently and not wait for seats to get any smaller. so i decided to put airlines to the test. two things necessarily for this little experiment of our own. a tike and a tape measure. on this united airlines flight, leg room was right at the industry standard, 30 inches. but it all depends on the airline. leg room could get even tighter on ultra low cost carriers.
we re dying. it doesn t matter what airline it is. i can t imagine seats or aisles being smaller than they are today. now the federal aviation administration is considering whether to stop airlines from making seats smaller. evacuate, evacuate. leave everything. come this way. reporter: the agency is under a congressional mandate to study whether a seat size could slow an evacuation. but in 26,000 public comments many focused on comfort. the idea is the more people you can jam into a plane, the more money you make. reporter: airlines are trying to squeeze out more profit. this week six u.s. senators are telling the faa to act youurgen and not wait for seats to get smaller. so i decided to put airlines to the test. on this united airlines flight. leg room was at the industry