I don’t mind if the person in front of me reclines. But the seat back stops at my knees. Guaranteed.
I find the 5 degrees (or whatever it is) of recline to be more uncomfortable than sitting up straight. It’s a funny angle for my back. I wouldn’t mind if there was no recline at all.
I was always told that reclining one’s seat was bad etiquette. If the seat in front of me reclines into my face, I just can’t guarantee that I won’t be accidentally hitting its back with my knee from time to time.
Airline passengers are getting as rude on planes as they are everywhere else. No consideration to other passengers is given when they recline their seats, or when they bring all their worldly possessions in carryon luggage and hog the overhead space, and stick their butt in other people’s faces when stowing the oversized suitcase.
Fortunately I’m small (under 5’4” and I can sleep sitting straight up. Last flight my chair would not recline. I found that curious but didn’t care and went to sleep anyway, sitting bolt upright, for about 15 minutes which is all I needed. If I were flying to Europe or Hawaii I would be concerned. But that’s one of the reasons I don’t plan on doing either.
Amazing how many Freepers disdain recline and blame the person in front of them rather than the airlines.
If you want additional space for your knees, buttonhole the airlines to create it, IMO.
“It makes life worse for all of us when people become so obsessed with their own satisfaction that they convince themselves they have a guaranteed right to it. Common courtesy and self-control used to be esteemed as indispensable to a healthy society. But the more we rely on law and regulation to maintain social order, the less we seem to emphasize good character and values.”
Absolutely true. I see examples (more than one) of this every single day I go to the gym to workout. Add to the above the complete lack of will to insist that immigrants assimilate (let alone the issue of massive illegal alien importation) and we get the above attitudes.
My Father always said about these types of people “hooray for me, the hell with everyone else”. This is the way society is now - complete lack of common courtesy, no remorse whatsoever, extremely low morals and on and on...
Reclining is a problem?
I’m a rich capitalist pig and fly first class. Not at all sure what the issue is?
Exactly and what the airlines have done is create the clash of rights… the person in front has an implied ‘right’ to move their seat back since after all, they have been given a button that lets them recline. The person behind has an implied ‘right’ to reasonable space expectations and after all, that space comes with a tray that can be lowered for their personal use for the laptop.
The airlines caused this problem…it’s past time for them to actually solve it.
There is a 2-dimensional view to the problem or a 3-dimensional view.
They are not compatible.
Sadly, people like to mix both viewpoints.
I’m glad this country is finally having this discussion! Maybe fewer people will think twice or ask before reclining their seats.
Well there’s no solution, other than not cramming the rows of seats so close together.
And planes and theaters need double armrests too.
If the person in Row 1 reclines slightly into Row 2, and then the person in Row 2 reclines slightly into Row 3, and so on, doesn’t everyone still “own” the same cubic inches of space, just slightly re-angled? Except the guy bolt-upright against the bulkhead, of course. He should get a free Scotch.