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Apr 17, 2023 | 12:43 pm

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dblumenhoff

Join Date: Dec 2017

Posts: 474

Quote:

Originally Posted by GW McLintock

This is an FAA requirement and while I don't know the specific citation it is enforced in air crew training programs.

It is not an FAA requirement. See below what the FAA says:

Quote:

https://www.faa.gov/travelers/fly_children
A CRS must not block the escape path in an emergency. Many airlines have policies that require a CRS to be placed in a window seat.

It is up to the discretion of the airlines whether having a CRS in a non-window seat would block the escape path in an emergency (and as CARES harnesses don't impede anything, an airline not taking a "bluntness of a hammer" approach per SWCPHX might distinguish between the two in its policymaking).

Case in point, Southwest permits in window or middle (but not aisle): https://www.southwest.com/help/flyin...g-with-infants

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