# 2025-11156: FAA Renews Rule Helping Parents Fit Child Seats on Airplanes

2025-11156, Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Disclosure of Seat Dimensions To Facilitate the Use of Child Safety Seats on Airplanes During Passenger-Carrying Operations, is a Federal Register notice from Transportation Department, Federal Aviation Administration published 2025-06-17, effective Written comments should be submitted by July 12, 2025.; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-11-03).

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## Facts
- Document number: 2025-11156
- Title: Agency Information Collection Activities: Requests for Comments; Clearance of a Renewed Approval of Information Collection: Disclosure of Seat Dimensions To Facilitate the Use of Child Safety Seats on Airplanes During Passenger-Carrying Operations
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: Transportation Department; Federal Aviation Administration
- Citation: 90 FR 25741
- Published: 2025-06-17
- Effective: Written comments should be submitted by July 12, 2025.
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-03

## In one line

FAA Renews Rule Helping Parents Fit Child Seats on Airplanes

## Summary

The FAA is renewing a rule that requires airlines to share seat width info on their websites. This helps parents know if their child safety seats will fit on planes. Airlines must keep this info updated, and the public can comment until July 12, 2025.

## Abstract

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA invites the public to make public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew an information collection. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following collection of information was published on September 17, 2024. In accordance with Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) Part 121.311, the collection of data requires passenger carrying air carriers to make available on their websites the width of the narrowest and widest passenger seat in each class of service for each make, model and series of airplane used in passenger-carrying operations. The collected information will be utilized to support the use of child restraint systems on airplanes.

## Effects PRIA read

- Airlines must post seat widths: benefit, low. You can find the width of the narrowest and widest passenger seat in each class of service for each make, model, and series of airplane on an airline's website. This is required by 14 CFR 121.311 and is intended to help caregivers determine whether a child safety seat will fit.
- Airlines must keep seat info updated: benefit, low. Air carriers must update the posted seat-width information when they introduce a new airplane make, model, or series to their fleet or when they replace the widest or narrowest seats on an existing aircraft with wider or narrower seats. This helps ensure the seat-fit information remains current for…
- Compliance burden on Part 121 carriers: cost, low. The renewal covers 47 Part 121 air carriers as respondents and estimates a total annual burden of 348 hours for maintaining and updating the posted seat-dimension information. The notice states that the vast majority of the burden occurred on a one-time basis when carriers first posted the informat…

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## Sources
- [2025-11156 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/06/17/2025-11156/agency-information-collection-activities-requests-for-comments-clearance-of-a-renewed-approval-of)
- [2025-11156 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-06-17/pdf/2025-11156.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-11156 (as of 2026-11-03).