Angry woman on plane, Was we BU?

But not during neals/drinks, especially when told to put it upright by the flight attendant

I bloody hate it when people fully recline their seat . The person behind has no leg room , limited body space and the table / tray becomes too close to be useful . I don’t recline my seat because it’s not fair

Because it’s not really necessary for a 4 year old and he refused to put it upright when refreshments were served.

I expect the person who is reclining the seat, using the in built seat recline function, may think you’re the selfish one.

Your husband put it back the second time out of pure spite. My arse about his neck.
I always wonder what a person who is happy to be visibly spiteful to strangers in front of wife and son, is like behind closed doors. I wouldn’t want to be married to a man like this.

I don't get why the op's husband is getting a hard time. If you can recline the seat then that's what it's for,right?

I had this on a flight from nyc to London last year and it was shit.

The young man reclined as soon as we left until we landed. And I had to ask the cabin crew to ask him to straighten up each time a meal came. Why couldn’t he just do it himself without being asked? It was so rude. Yeah he’s allowed to recline but not during mealtimes.

As annoying as I find it I do accept it’s the fault of the airlines for how they’ve even enabled chairs to recline that much and how little space is left on economy when someone in front of you reclines and you haven’t.

But I can blame passengers who don’t put their chairs back up at meal times! And I do feel the airlines, having created this situation, should at least remind everyone to put their chairs upright when serving food and drinks.
Instead it’s left to passengers to argue among themselves or request the cabin crew intervene.

There used to be an announcement every meal time for people to make sure their chairs are upright but I’ve not heard them for a while.

Both a bit UR, a tired child is difficult to handle, so I’d happily let him recline to get off to sleep. But DH should’ve put the seat back for drinks.

They’re really annoying, but it’s allowed. But the person behind you has even less room, we never do it. I cwtch DD up on me with her legs on DH (which is incredibly uncomfortable) but I know it’s awful to basically have someone’s head in your face the entire journey- which is why we’ve only done 4 hour flight max lol She’s 9 now and just cwtches herself in the corner seat to sleep.

This, surely this is what anyone would do for a child who wants a nap on a day flight? They lay across their seat head in a lap

This ⬆️. Your husband is a complete and utter arsehole

Oh god as soon as the seat belt lights went off? 7 hours of that? Just no.

When has anyone ever been comfortable sleeping in a plane seat anyway??

If the seat wasn’t meant to recline, it wouldn’t have the recline feature.

Yes they should be upright during meals but all other times, they can be used as necessary whether it’s a day or night flight.

I’ve never seen a rule on any airline that provides seat reclines can only happen overnight and the steward made matters worse IMO.

At the poor woman in the row behind you can take comfort in the fact that she's not married to your arsehole of a husband.

Def your DH. I dig my legs / feet right into cheeky fuckers who recline on flights and then I push the seat right back up. Can't stand the selfish twattedness of it.

Not really. That’s why you’re asked to put your seat in the upright position when they’re serving food and drinks.

Your kid sleeping does not trump the woman’s comfort. You and your husband are ridiculous to think that it does

And that’s fine - until refreshments are served

I hate being behind someone reclining. Your DH was a twat. Luckily people don't stay reclined in front of me for long as I get horribly, violently travel sick, even with meds. Having someone projectile vomiting into a bag, less than a foot from your head is apparently not conducive to rest.

My understanding is you’re only expected to have your seat upright for any drinks/dinner service, outside of that you’re allowed to have your seat reclined. I don’t think you’re being unreasonable… I can’t imagine calling someone a “twat” because they moved their seat back because they had a sleeping small child. Maybe I’m too soft but I don’t begrudge people reclining their seats I thought it was the norm?

I genuinely didn’t think people reclined their seats these days.

Plane seats are designed to recline. The trays still work. I think it’s fair enough to recline.

I was just on a ten hour flight and a teenager in front of me tried to recline from the off. We had just been served drinks, and he did it so violently, and without looking that my drink nearly went flying all over me. I asked him not to while we were having drinks and food and he clearly wasn't happy in him and his mum had a little snipe to themselves about it but eventually when everyone went to sleep and everyone reclined which was all fine, but then in the morning, he got up walking around and was just generally stood around the plane and never put his seat up, and I had to ask him to again.And that was just cf.

You cannot just recline, because chairs recline, unless you are a completely entitled narcissist.

I would imagine he or she was annoyed at the situation not the husbands reclining the seat. He just wanted to de escalate it.