FAA Launches Child Flight Safety Awareness Campaign
Woodrow Bellamy III
FAA on Tuesday announced a new educational initiative to promote child passenger flight safety awareness, as parents prepare for the summer travel season.
“Millions of people will take to the skies this summer, and we are doing everything we can to keep air travelers as safe as possible,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a press release. “We want to make sure parents and caregivers have the best information to keep their children safe when they travel.”
FAA has introduced a new website that will provide parents with tips and video tutorials on the proper child safety procedures to follow while flying this summer.
Airlines for America, the Association of Flight Attendants, Consumers Union and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all agreed to help the FAA distribute this information as well.
FAA guidelines recommend children that weigh 20 pounds or less should sit in a rear-facing child safety seat, and children between 20 and 40 pounds can use a forward facing seat.
“The safest place for a child under two on an airplane is in a child safety seat, not on a parent’s lap. Whenever possible, parents should travel with a safety seat for use before, during and after a plane ride,” said Robert W. Block, president, American Academy of Pediatrics.
Woodrow Bellamy III
FAA on Tuesday announced a new educational initiative to promote child passenger flight safety awareness, as parents prepare for the summer travel season.
“Millions of people will take to the skies this summer, and we are doing everything we can to keep air travelers as safe as possible,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in a press release. “We want to make sure parents and caregivers have the best information to keep their children safe when they travel.”
FAA has introduced a new website that will provide parents with tips and video tutorials on the proper child safety procedures to follow while flying this summer.
Airlines for America, the Association of Flight Attendants, Consumers Union and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all agreed to help the FAA distribute this information as well.
FAA guidelines recommend children that weigh 20 pounds or less should sit in a rear-facing child safety seat, and children between 20 and 40 pounds can use a forward facing seat.
“The safest place for a child under two on an airplane is in a child safety seat, not on a parent’s lap. Whenever possible, parents should travel with a safety seat for use before, during and after a plane ride,” said Robert W. Block, president, American Academy of Pediatrics.
