Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. November 25th, 2025

A video taken on a WestJet flight leaving Edmonton has passengers decrying the shrinking size of airplane seats, but a passenger rights advocate says that aside from a change in the law there’s little travellers can do except fight back. The video was posted to social media on Dec. 27 and has been seen more than a million times on TikTok and elsewhere. In it, a couple can be seen wedged into their seats, the man’s legs disappearing unnaturally under the seat in front of him. “Dad, can you just straighten out your legs there?” a voice asks. He replies: “It’s impossible to...