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US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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663 points duxup | 1 comments | 24 Sep 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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egonschiele ◴[24 Sep 25 14:00 UTC] No.45360538[source]▶
> Family Seating Guarantees: Under current regulations, airlines must ensure that families with young children are seated together without additional charges. This would no longer be guaranteed under the new proposal, meaning families could face extra costs just to sit next to one another.

This one is wild. You want to sit next to somebody's crying 2 year old? Go nuts. Change their diaper while you're at it.

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itopaloglu83 ◴[24 Sep 25 14:09 UTC] No.45360649[source]▶
Asking families if their teenager could be seated separately is one thing, but knowing the airlines, they might as well start seating the toddlers in the overhead luggage compartments.
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bthrn ◴[24 Sep 25 14:17 UTC] No.45360772[source]▶
The most profitable way to fill a plane would be to knock everybody out and just pile them up in the fuselage.
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1. bluGill ◴[24 Sep 25 17:13 UTC] No.45363238[source]▶
Only a new airplane. Most planes are designed for a lot of air and couldn't fly with as many people as can physically fit inside. Cargo airplanes carefully watch this factor. As a passenger I've been on airplanes that took off with empty seats even though there were people on standby wanting to get on because with the weather they couldn't fly a full plane.