To recline my seat on a long haul flight?

[PiratePanda]

Just thought I'd check I was not BU.

Long haul flight in economy, 9 hours, overnight. I had my seat up for take off and landing and for meals but for the rest of the flight I wanted and needed to sleep (travelling for work) so reclined my seat.

The woman sitting behind me made an enormous fuss about me reclining my seat at all, complaining rudely to me when I reclined it, tutting and sighing loudly whenever she got up to go to the loo, kneeing me in the back apparently with intent, and hitting me quite hard and insistently on the head and shaking the chair to make me wake up in the morning well before the breakfast came round.

IWNBU was I? You are entitled to recline your seat except for take off and landing and meals, no? Otherwise why provide a recline button?

God she was rude.

I have travelled business for a uni, but to be fair it was organised well in advance and only a miniscule amount more than economy (something like £20) through a special travel agent, so there wasn't a problem.

wow !

I didnt realise

I thought if you paid for your seat you could recline or not recline as much as you liked, especially on long haul. Otherwise what is the point of the airline providing reclining seats ?

I like to travel at night, I have even fallen asleep before the plane has taken off

My big question is - Is there the same etiquette on the Megabus ?