To think it's actually OK to recline your seat on a long haul flight?

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I always thought it was just one of those things, but this poll seems to make out it's anti-social behaviour. And that hack is just batshit.

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Agreed. Tall is far from the only thing that might mean someone needed a bit of room, or wanted to choose to pay for it.

Seats made to recline. If I'm traveling and I need a snooze or more comfortable position, I recline whether it's a one hour or 14 hour flight. If you need more space or feel your comfortable travel is more important than mine, find an alternative way to travel.

Why are people arseholes for reclining on a 2 hour flight? For all you know that person has just got off a flight from Australia or London and now has a 2 hour internal flight. If they are tired, recline away if the seats have the facility to do this! It’s never black and white. You can’t know what or how many flights a person has been on before they end up in the seat in front of you reclined!! Yes upright for meals but at all other times reclining is absolutely fine

It just depends on direction of travel. Most people will sleep east to avoid jetlag, so flying to Asia or from US to UK it's reasonable to recline immediately to sleep. Flying west, no, stay sitting up to watch films, eat or whatever. Up/ down you don't recline as it's the same time zone.

Totally agree

And then that opens up questions about the arseholes who happily snore on a flight too.

That's me, sorry 😅

I usually go business on a long haul, but work send us to the US cattle class a couple of times a year. If I'm taking a 10+ flight in cattle, I'm getting as comfy as possible for as long as possible. Wing or front row ideally so nobody reclines on me.

That logic means no recline on something like the dozens of overnight westbound Far East (SIN, KUL etc) to Europe flights and no recline on a late night Europe departure for South Africa....

You are also not factoring in the sleep needs of those who have maybe connected onto something like a westbound Europe US flight from a south to north overnighter.

I travel to Singapore quite often for work. When cabin lights are dimmed for overnight, l don’t have a problem with it. But l recently had a very large man in front of me recline his seat as soon as seatbelt signs were off and remained like that for the whole 13 hour flight. He ignored cabin crew requests to bring his seat forward for meal times.

That's weird as back row seats have a wall behind them and don't usually recline as no foon

This year for the first time we will be flying business class on our 10 hour flight - I can't wait! Lie flat beds - bliss!!!

It's not that weird, it depends on the aircraft/cabin configuration.

On a lot of long haul aircraft at least some if not all of the back row seats recline.

I’d only recline once the meal service had been cleared away and everyone had settled down, and if the person in front of me reclined before then I’d ask the cabin crew to ask them to sit up and wait until after the meal was over. Anyone refusing to would probably wished they had if I then got up to the loo and had to use the back of their seat to hold on to because I once, according to the person in front of me, ‘almost set his bloody neck’ when I did need to get up. It was absolutely not intended but now if I have to get up I just do and I couldn’t care less about anyone’s neck given how hard it must be in the first place.

I had two awful flights, both daytime, one to US, guy in front recline as soon as seatbelt sign went off, and a flight to the Canaries, the guy in front was massive so the seat went back even further with his weight. I couldn’t get out to go to the loo I have MS and bladder issues, so need the loo frequently.

One of the things I actually like about the budget airlines, the fact their seats don’t recline, makes for a more comfortable flight.

I always recline for a long haul flight. The seat of a plane generally goes up then the head rest juts out. They are designed for men who are generally taller than women.

I am 5 foot 4 so my head generally hits the bottom of the headrest and it juts my head in a really uncomfortable face down position. By reclining the angle of the headrest is less severe.

I would always move the seat upright during mealtimes.

Are you honestly saying that you expect other people to sit bolt upright to accommodate you because you’ve got your toddler?

Sorry to break it to you but that’s not how life works.

So you don’t like it if someone reclines in you, but ok for you to do on the person behind?

That is poor behaviour from you on a flight.

Of course it’s ok to recline your seat. Just put it up at meal times.

Yes, it's absolutely fine, obviously within the times it's allowed.

They should be up for meal service because otherwise the angle makes it hard to eat. But outside of that then it’s fine to recline them, expected even on a long haul flight. If the person in front of you reclines and you recline too then you’re back to the same amount of space you had originally so I do not get why it would be a problem for anyone. The outrage makes no sense.

Will you ask them if they mind, first? I would.

Please don't.

Under twos often don’t have their own seat.

With respect, that's not the problem of anyone but you.