Are you an aeroplane seat recliner??

[Sotuko]

If so, do you not feel a bit guilty about the poor sod sat behind you who now has even less space than they had before??

I don't understand why airlines still allow this, there isn't the room for it!

During a long flight last night/this morning/I don't know I've lost all track of time, I wasn't able to use my telly as the woman in front made sure it was RIGHT in my face and don't even get me started on meal time.

So are you a seat recliner and if so, do you think about the impact on the person behind you?

I'm potentially saving her from a thorough soaking cos if I think someone is deliberately kicking the back of my seat, said seat is getting unceremoniously reclined at light speed when the meals appears

Yes, let's see how that ends for you.

(And how many times do I have to repeat that it is not kicking if you push your seat against my knees!)

I never recline the seats. I wish they'd remove the option to recline.

Yes, let's see how that ends for you.

Very well, I suspect. Won't you have your "knee amputations" to keep you busy?

When booking seats you cannot guarantee beforehand how much leg room you will get.

I took a flight with British Airways who shared the flight & plane with a another company. There was no legroom and my legs were crushed against the seat in front. On the way back, British Airways shared the flight with the same company, but used a British Airways plane. I had nearly an inch and a half between my knees and the seat in front of me (result!), But before boarding the plane there was no way of knowing if there would be adequate legroom or not.

Yes Emirates are fab fab fab. Last flight with them, I got my meal early (usual, I am ‘special’) and the guy in front was already reclined. I asked him to sit up, and he went halfway. I told him to sit up fully and he gave me a face. So I told the cabin crew member and she was hot on it.

My husband is tall, well, 6ft. I have literally never heard him once moan about someone reclining their seat into him.

I fly long haul (12-16 hours) once a year between Australia and the US or Dubai and already recline my chair. The attendants make you put your chair up for meals and takeoff and landing.

Sixteen hours is a bloody long flight and reclining seats is important. Everyone does is and I've never seen an argument. I've never seen heads in laps. The screen tilts

If one airline decided to go with non reclining seats for long haul flights I can say I definitely wouldn't be flying with that airline. So uncomfortable to try and sleep upright, because the person behind me wasn't organised or didn't want to fork up the extra dollars.
Sometimes our body types mean we have to spend extra money.. things are generally based on the majority. Tall people need to purchase extra leg room, larger people have to buy 2 seats. Short people need to pay to get all there pants taken up, Women with large chests need to fork up ridiculous money for supportive bras.. it's life. Can't expect other people to suffer sitting upright because they paid for a reclining seat but got stuck in front of someone who doesn't like it.

I recline on medium length flights or longer (though obviously not during meal service). If I do not recline, I am unlikely to be able to walk off the plane at the end of the flight. Even with reclining, I visibly limp much worse getting off than getting on, and am more reliant upon a mobility aid. So, yes, I'm afraid that I do need to be able to use the seat in the advertised manner.

Hilarious s thread. WILL EVERYONE PLEASE CALM DOWN!!!?

Actually being short is just as uncomfortable as being tall. Instead of bitching at other passengers, perhaps we should lobby the engineers and designers who insist that aircraft seats are comfortable for ANYONE?!?!?

I recline for long haul. My last journey was 9.5 hours, followed by a 7-hour layover and another 2-hour flight. There was no way I was not reclining for those 9.5 hours to help me sleep a bit. Regardless, almost everyone reclined even though it was a daytime flight. It was a new Dreamliner though, and the recline position didn't seem as obtrusive as the older planes.

It might not be the best solution (which is getting a steward to have firm words with the knee-poker about their behaviour) but it jolly well works and stops the annoying behaviour rather quickly.

Short of cutting off my legs my knees invariably end up in the back of the seat in front purely because I'm tall and it doesn't matter how many books or hairbrushes you put there, or how many flight attendants you talk to it isn't going to change the fact that my legs aren't going to get shorter during the flight.

I would love not to have my knees crammed up against the seat in front but sometimes there's so little leg room (especially on short haul budget flights) that it is impossible for me to do anything else.

I'd love to always sit in the bulkhead seats but I can't always afford it or sometimes they're already booked by the time I'm booking my tickets and so there is no option.

SIt in an aisle seat and stretch out along there? Pretty common over nights with very infrequent trolley service.

Where do you put the book/hairbrush to stop knees?

Still not clear, sorry. You put a book right into your lumbar spine area, then pad out with pillows?

Just home from 12hr Cathay Pacific flight from HK. Everyone reclined. Plenty of room.

If you want to push your knees against that, that’s fine.

You're missing the point that I don't want to press my knees against the seat in front, I can't help it!

It's not comfortable and it's not something that I want to do, but with the tiny airline seat pitch on some planes, I sometimes have no choice.

The difference between you and I is that I am uncomfortable out of necessity, you are making me (and yourself) uncomfortable out of choice.

Just home from 12hr Cathay Pacific flight from HK. Everyone reclined. Plenty of room.

Of course they did. This is normal on a long haul flight, in the real world.

I think the militant anti-recliners just fly to Magaluf once a year, and simply do not understand the need.

Yes it's weird, on these threads at least 50% of people say they never recline. Yet every time I fly 95-100% of people recline their seats and there is no fuss.