Angry woman on plane, Was we BU?

Well, if you’re trying to eat & not possible due to do so. Comfortably with seat in front reclined then I think it’s ok for airline to ask you to put seat upright at mealtimes?

Exactly what I was about to say. Or his head on your/DH's lap.

Also who the hell says "out of badness"??

Seats recline for anyone who wants to recline them for whatever reason for any time of day or night. Although I think many airlines will ask you to put seat upright at mealtimes. Unless person behind you is asleep too or also recline & not bothered .

This is utterly bizarre. All the responses are bizarre. What a reflection of our society. If there was a sleeping child in front of me I would not have a problem with the seat being reclined.

I’m firmly in the recline camp, but not until after food/drinks service. And not when there’s no need and you know it’s bothering the person behind you. That is proper dickhead behaviour.

I really don’t miss your point. You shouldn’t travel by plane if you don’t want to fall in with the accepted way that things are done on board. It’s accepted that seats are upright during the serving of refreshments. If you’re so tired that you don’t want any and think you could have fallen asleep when the crew come round to serve everyone then keep your seat up while you rest so you can carry on sleeping and the person behind can have enough space to eat and drink.

or pay for business class and recline when you want.

They do and it was 😭😂 my experience of this was in April and I haven’t flown long haul since, but I feel like when I do I’m frequently stuck behind the person who wants to recline fully.

Although on the way there surprisingly the person in front of me was so polite. He asked if I had enough room and he only reclined a tiny bit for some of the flight, whereas the man next to me was behind someone who had fully reclined the entire journey minus the mealtimes. He was really angry about it and they exchanged words.

If I remember correctly we were in a row that couldn’t recline much if at all. I think it wasn’t the back of the plane, but it was the back of that seat section - so there was a wall behind us .

So it’s not even as if the man next to me could’ve reclined even if he wanted to.

You can't. And if you try you're accused of damaging the seat.

Have a day off.

If you sit with your legs crossed it's hard to recline the seat in front, really annoys people, but even I couldn't do it for 7 hours.

I've been in both situations; woman in front of me recently didn't want to raise her child's seat so I could eat. Stewardess wasn't very supportive and it was apparent she felt I was wrong. A few years ago, we reclined 2 seats on a night flight so I could get comfy with a young DS. Teen behind banged on seat, parents were rude to DH when he asked him to stop and I suggested that if their tallest child was not comfy next to the window he could have one of their 2 aisle seats, continued that I only had a small child and should be more considerate, stewardess told me I was not to recline the seats after the meal service because I was upsetting other passengers. So it appears my viewpoint is always the wrong one!

No he wasn't - he was being a class A prick.
Using the female insult for a male is misogynistic tbh.

It happened to me on a 14 hour flight from Singapore 😭😭

Because it's acceptable to recline them at night.

Planes are cramped. Why include reclining seats if it's not acceptable to recline them? He was being unreasonable however arguing with the air hostess. And yes, he is a nob to not put them up when food is out.

Yep. And the fact is it’s also standard flight policy (on every airline I’ve been on) to request passengers put their seats upright again while meals are out.

unfortunately some don’t remind passengers anymore via a scheduled announcement at meals time.

But either way that is the policy on all airlines I’ve been on, which is why the flight attendant backed the woman behind OP’s DH and also has backed me when I’ve been in her situation.

So if you don’t want to be woken up and want to sleep through meals I suggest you don’t recline @JudyMoncada

On short haul flights, the seats don't recline because theres no need.

On long haul flights they do as there is a need for it.

I travel monthly and always recline at my leisure, as do most people around me. Nobody has ever had a problem with it and if they did I don't care for the comfort of people I don't know.

Very shocked by the responses here. I've never known people complain about this kind of thing

Seats up during service until stuff is cleared away. After that reclining is absolutely reasonable and does not require the permission of the person behind.

Exactly why I would never fly economy any more - sure, fewer holidays, but I just can't stand the entitlement of these awful people with kids who think all other passengers should just put up with it.

Exactly. Just because someone is being selfish twat to you doesn’t make it right for you to be a selfish twat to someone else.

But the steward will ask you to raise the seat if refreshments are being served to the person behind you

Its a health and safety
space and
courtesy issue

Airlines need to stop having reclining seats in economy as there just isnt enough space. If someone fully reclined a seat for a 7hr flight it would make the flight pretty miserable

He should moved the seat up willingly when the drinks/food were being served, but the rest of the time the lady behind should have gotten over it. If she had been asleep/wanting to sleep, she would have been reclining her own seat asap.

For those saying if we don’t like someone reclining then we can just recline too, the thing is some of us don’t like to recline.

The main reason for me is that I don’t want to encroach upon someone’s space, just because it’s been done to me. And occasionally my indigestion can be a bit off on flights so that’s another reason I prefer to be upright.

Overall I prefer to just take the hit as it were and grimace and bear it if someone is reclining, rather than do to the person behind me what I don’t like being done to myself.

And yes joining in the chorus to say your husband was absolutely BU. I’d be embarrassed if anyone I was with behaved like this.

Wonder why you didn’t just put the seat upright yourself or was your husband in between you?

In a standard economy seat the tray is pretty much unusable if the seat in front is reclined.