[Wolfie]

I once had a woman bitch at me because she couldn’t recline her seat without hitting my knees. At 6’ 2” there wasn’t a whole lot I could about it.

[doorgunner69]

Yep, had some old bitch repeatedly slam her seat into my knees and curse me for refusing to let her recline. Did not want to listen to me explain I was too tall to give her the room.

When she persisted to slam, I started slamming back, and she finally gave up.

[omegatoo]

I think much of the problem stems from the airlines not decreasing the ‘reclinability’ of seats as they have decreased the space between them. I find the upright position very uncomfortable, but it only takes an inch or two of recline to fix that. I don’t recline completely because I know how annoying it is and I’m comfortable enough without doing it.

I don’t think another passenger should be able to stop my seat from reclining, and the passenger who did that was wrong in the first place and extra wrong when he refused to remove the device when asked by the flight attendant. If you need space that badly then you should buy a seat that supplies it without infringing on your fellow passengers. But I think if the airlines would restrict the recline angle a bit they would probably nip a lot of these problems in the bud.

/barney fife

:-)

O2