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Old Oct 27, 2018, 11:59 pm
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Beltway2A
 
Join Date: Apr 2017
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The free market has been utter garbage in my lifetime, bring on the notice and comment. It's about time the Feds crashed this particular money train that the airlines use to milk more and more money for worse and worse seats.

With this Administration’s focus on deregulation, I would be very surprised if they put out anything that significantly changed the current seat sizes (at least based on the big 4 carriers). However, I do think this will open up opportunities for changes in the future, particularly as newer aircraft models come online.
With functionally every senior administration or agency official in this administration flying private, I think any kind of meaningful regulation is a pipe dream. If any semblance of order is restored and cabinet secretaries and their deputies take commercial flights again (perhaps even in coach like previous administrations), I will have relatively high hopes.

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