Are you an aeroplane seat recliner??

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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?

Wow. Is anybody gonna read all that??

I was always brought up with the mantra

Why would anyone think this is relevant?

Wow. Is anybody gonna read all that??

I occasionally get insomnia, so maybe if I need something to make me nod off.

Jesus this thread has certainly met the loon quorum. WTAF Leo?

It's actually worth ploughing through. It's got more irrelevant tangents than a Stephen King novel and a lovely bit about not wanting to hurt a fellow human being. They're reclining plane seats, not shotguns.

Fucking hell, leo, drugs are never a good idea for anybody.

Thank you Yorick, and Expat I have no idea to what you refer.

This morning launched a "Be Kind" campaign a few days ago. Mainly around schools and kids, bullying etc, but the underlying message is be kind. I wonder just how we as a society can we teach our kids to be kind when we cannot practice it as fully functioning adults and often parents? What happened to being considerate of others? Its a sad world sometimes when reclining plane seats cause so much resentment. First world problems indeed.

' Its a sad world sometimes when reclining plane seats cause so much resentment. '

It doesn't cause me any resentment at all. If the seat reclines and I'm sleepy, I'll recline it and go to sleep. In the real world, most people don't give a flying fuck (no pun intended).

They're reclining seats, not nunchucks.

Can only be a matter of time until reclining seats in economy are consigned to history. Bring it on!

Can only be a matter of time until reclining seats in economy are consigned to history. Bring it on!

Yet another example of someone who clearly only flies to Tenerife for their annual holiday.

Reclining seats aren't going anywhere. People who fly long haul all use them with gay abandon, and nobody bats an eyelid.

The fact that they're needed on long haul flights is an inconvenient truth for the militant anti-recliners.

Someone did this to DS , person then gets knees very hard in the kidney area tuns around to complain, takes one look at 6' 5 outhouse of a man and put his seat back up. I hope he remembers this in future

Tsunami I was talking about the posters who said they would knee the reclined seat and push it to, and put devices in to stop the recline.

Dowager I have flown long haul (15 hours plus) regularly for the last 14 years. Not sure why you would assume otherwise.

I assume it because it seems bizarre you would think airlines will be getting rid of reclining seats.

You may not recline on long haul flights, but everyone else does, and your average long haul consumer wouldn't tolerate non-reclining seats.

DowagerI have flown long haul (15 hours plus) regularly for the last 14 years. Not sure why you would assume otherwise.

I'm assumed the same myself tbh, as I have never flown longhaul when everyone hasn't reclined.

Why do you think reclining seats are on their way out?

Kindness works both ways.
Yu can’t ask someone to be kind by not reclining (because it leaves you with less/not enough space);and then in the same breath have a go at them because they expect you to be kind by tolerating them reclining their seat (because they need some sleep, have some backache, the person front has declined etc...).

Actually the level of intolerance in this thread from the non recliners is quite astonishing. And more so because they come from the angle that THEY are the nice people who are caring for those behind them —whereas recliners are just twats who are totally inconsiderate—
The issue of course is that you can’t have it both ways....

I absolutely do not believe that anyone sits ramrod straight for 15 hours on long haul flights on a regular basis, unless they have an injury or something that prevents reclining. It's just silly anti recliners making up anything as they lose both the point and general grip.

Absolutely.

In the real world, everyone happily reclines, while the few militant anti-recliners sit there, seething with passive aggressive resentment, bursting a few blood vessels, while all the recliners snooze away, completely oblivious.

Why do you think someone must be lying because you cannot imagine something? I regularly fly long haul and I don’t recline. I think reclining seats will eventually disappear. It has already started. No reason to think it won’t continue.

I'm sure you don't recline.

Meanwhile, everyone else does, on long haul, at least.

Reclining seats aren't going anywhere on long haul flights.

Because you are asking me to imagine something utterly preposterous. And this thread is full of preposterousness. People claiming that they will brace for the entire flight, people claiming that they will prevent the seat in front from reclining with the sheer Herculean power of their biceps, people claiming that tilting your seat back on a flight is an act of inhumanity and sheer unkindness to one's fellow man, people claiming all sorts of bollocks and this idea that you would happily sit for 15 hours without changing position or leaning back to sleep - not once, but on a regular basis for years on end - is beyond asinine.

I have never seen a problem with people reclining on a flight. I have never seen a long haul flight when people didn't recline at least to sleep. I could not give a monkeys if the person in front of me reclines, it won't affect my legroom and I'm not planning on bracing for the duration, so really who gives a shit.

A few uncommonly tall people may have a problem. I think 99% of people, if they find they're in front of Goliath and really can't recline, will try to be nice about it. The vast majority of people have absolutely nothing to worry about. In fact, I would go so far as to tell you fruit loops that you haven't got enough to worry about. Go and set something close to you on fire.

The things that have been claimed and argued on here on the most piddling matter that nobody in real life actually gives a shit about are absurd. They are demented. They are utterly nonsensical. No, I do not believe that you regularly sit upright at 90 degrees on planes for more than half a day, especially if it's a night flight. And if you do, that doesn't make you moral or superior, it just makes you uncomfortable.

Flaming Nora.

@PoorYorick spot on! Love the passive aggressive 'I sit bolt upright for my 17 hour flight as I am not inhumane and I couldn't possibly inflict that on my fellow human' 😁

I do that 17 hour AKL -Dubai 8 times a year. After the meal the lights go out and everyone EVERYONE reclines. I am 5'10 with a 6,2 partner. We are perfectly comfortable with the person in front reclined. I even get to cross my legs! Never seen someone not recline so I don't get this angst! No one ever asked my permission to recline and I'd think them nuts if they did.

My main concern is how frequently I can ask aisle seat person to let me out to the lav. I get errrrmmm ..... windy on long flights and it's about every hour it needs a release....