Is It Hot in Here? Airline Workers Urge Temperature Control

Recently suffer through a stifling cross-country flight? Like everything these days, there’s an app that aims to solve that.

Flight attendant unions are petitioning the government to establish temperature regulations on commercial aircraft. To that end, the Association of Flight Attendants created an app called 2Hot2Cold. It launched publicly Aug. 1.

The app allows flight attendants and passengers to report extreme temperatures while on board. To accurately register those temperatures, the unions are also providing attendants with thousands of small thermostats.

The data collected from the app will be presented to the Transportation Department to support the claim that federal ...