It's no longer safe to recline your airplane seat

AP via Yahoo ^ | September 2, 2014 | Scott Mayerowitz

[EveningStar]

Squeezed into tighter and tighter spaces, airline passengers appear to be rebelling, taking their frustrations out on other fliers.

Three U.S. flights made unscheduled landings in the past eight days after passengers got into fights over the ability to recline their seats. Disputes over a tiny bit of personal space might seem petty, but for passengers whose knees are already banging into tray tables, every inch counts.

[EveningStar]

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[molson209]

Airlines will fix , pay extra for a reclining seat

[Bitsy]

Yep. Liberals wanted to be free to do or say whatever they wanted and wanted everyone to do the same. Now you can do or say whatever you want but you also can get shot doing it. Three cheers for liberal freedoms!

[Bitsy]

Yep. Liberals wanted to be free to do or say whatever they wanted and wanted everyone to do the same. Now you can do or say whatever you want but you also can get shot doing it. Three cheers for liberal freedoms!

[DCBryan1]

They can start by blacklisting and declaring people like AMY FINE, 32 of Boca Raton, FL a person-non-grata and sharing the information with other airlines. She is the culprit of the latest reclining chair story.

If casinos can ban drunks, cheats, and habitual gamblers, can't the airline industry ban narcissistic, disruptive, rude people?

[Veggie Todd]

My biggest gripe on planes is crying/screaming babies and toddlers.

[longtermmemmory]

The airlines redesigned first and business class to function better in the allotted space. Why not economy?

[thackney]

They have. But you and I have different opinions of what better means than an airline.

New airline seat designs squeeze in more passengers
http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/04/21/more-uncomfortable-airline-seats-squeezes-in-more-passengers/

[longtermmemmory]

that was vaporware.

[Gay State Conservative]

My biggest gripe on planes is crying/screaming babies and toddlers.

That's why God created chloroform.

[thackney]

That particular model, but airlines have put more seats in the same airplane space.

The Incredible Shrinking Plane Seat
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304384104579141941949066648

[Gay State Conservative]

If airlines can force fat people to buy two seats (or fly business/first)...I think the courts have ruled that they can...then why can’t they force particularly tall people to pick particular seats in coach (a bulkhead,for example) or fly business/first?

[BornToBeAmerican]

Flew to Austrailia in ‘08 on an airline I can’t remember, but I remember the seats. I flew economy plus and I could spread my legs out completely beneath the seat in front of me. Same seats, just higher. What a concept.

[reefdiver]

Not just on planes either, people don’t know how to raise children anymore, they give them anything they want.
My wife never put up with that, she could just look at them an there was quite.

[DTA]

>>>>>Airlines will fix , pay extra for a reclining seat<<<<<<

The problem are not reclining seats. the problem are the seats that can NOT be reclined and sold by airlines as regular seats to unsuspecting customers. They are located nested to the toilet wall,compartment divider as well as the last row in the tail section.

So, when the passengers start reclining their seats, domino effect ensues and everyone is fine (same distance) EXCEPT the passenger on non-reclining seat being squished between his/her non-reclining seat and reclined seat in front. if that passenger is of normal human size, there could be a problem.

I've been once in such situation and know first hand.

Any dispute inside airplane with ANYONE is dangerous - you may end up being arrested or banned from flying commercial EVEN if when you do not start altercation. Stay away from trouble

remedy: Check seat plan for EVERY airliner (e.g. seatguru site)knowing that different airliners of the same type can have different floor plan. Refuse to use non-reclining seat at all times.

[sickoflibs]

I avoid carriers like United that cram the seats together to make more $$$.

Customers who fly them either are ignorant of it or they will tolerate anything to save a buck, like waiting on a long line at Walmarts.

[Londo Molari]

Well, like anything else, a little bit of common courtesy would have avoided the whole thing. My coworker was trapped in the last row of a plane where the seats do not recline because they are against the bulkhead. Then the a-hole in front of him decided to push his seat all the way back. He had zero room. That was not very courteous of the person in front. My coworker had to bang against the back of seat just to move and there was almost an altercation because the idiot up front thought he was doing it on purpose.

Add to that, the toilet overflowed and soaked his shoes. I would not have been very happy at all. One of the many reasons I have air travel now.

[Political Junkie Too]

Not just that, but the parents who change their diapers at their seats.

-PJ