Reclining Seats

[positiveg]

Personally I find that reclining airline seats make no sense. When you recline your seat, you gain room at the expense of the person behind you. The only recourse the person behind you has is to endure the intrusion or recline their own seat. The result is "mutually assured discomfort" for everyone on the plane.


When you put the seat back, you stick your headrest into the face of the person behind and you make it hard for the person behind to use his tray table.

Anyone else find this extremely annoying?

 

[Pantherjon]

I find it very annoying as most of the time I am working on my laptop..That and the seatback mounts are almost always loose, so EVERY move the person makes shifts the seatback..But then again, I don't fly commercial much anymore, and when I do, I fly 1st class now

 

[A1FlyBoy]

the only people who don't find it annoying are Asian.

 

[JimG]

I only recline mine if there's nobody behind me (not likely anymore), or a red-eye. I hate it being done to me.

 

[atrdriver]

I only recline mine if there's nobody behind me (not likely anymore), or a red-eye. I hate it being done to me.

I'm the same way, but very few others are. Normally just after takeoff you see a seatback coming at you, with nowhere to go.

 

[frog_flyer]

the only people who don't find it annoying are Asian.

so true. they cram them in the overhead bins over there

 

[Diesel]

stuff a magazine and pinch it in the tray table. It makes it impossible for them to recline their seat.

 

[Gorilla]

At 6'3" and 220 lb, coach seats for me are death. I can only imagine the hell for guys 6'6" and up.

Why is it that when you deadhead and get the inevitable middle seat in coach, you walk back to find two enormously fat rednecks in muscle shirts or wife-beaters on either side of you, while across the aisle are two petit (and hot) gals with some lucky b*****d in the middle?

We must also never forget having someone behind you who kicks a lot, or worse, uses your headrest as a lever to get out of their seat.

Flight attendants LOVE to deadhead. I'd rather work up front, BY FAR. Deadheading has to be one of the worst things we do. I have nothing but awe and respect for commuters who can do it frequently without going insane.