Originally Posted by
Often1
Congress never enacted anything. There was a proposal to require DOT to write rules, but that proposal went nowhere. By nowhere I mean that there was close to zero support when it came down to a vote, so it never even got a vote.
You've said this before on other threads, and you are still incorrect. If you look at
H.R.636 from 2016, you will see that it was passed into law (and by a fairly wide margin of votes -- 272 to 142 in the House, 89 to 4 in the Senate). Here is the text from that bill:
(Sec. 2309) DOT shall review and, if appropriate, establish a policy to require all air carriers to establish a policy that enables a child, age 13 or under on a scheduled flight, to be seated in a seat adjacent to the seat of an accompanying family member over age 13, except when assignment to an adjacent seat would require an upgrade to another cabin class or a seat with extra legroom or seat pitch for an additional charge.