To recline or not to recline...

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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,342
    Merkin Baller said:


    I think the biggest story here is people's inability or refusal to put themselves in the other person's shoes.

    Airline travel sucks, and when the people around you are inconsiderate it sucks even more.




    This!  People are the worst.  Nobody thinks how their actions effect others and then go about treating their flight like they are hanging out in their living room.  
  • myoung321
    myoung321 Posts: 2,855
    This wasn't an issue before airlines jammed in more rows and more rows. 

    According to FlyersRights.org, a nonprofit advocating for passengers’ rights, the average economy-class seat is 17 inches wide, compared to 18.5 inches in the early 2000s. The average space between a seat and the seat in front of it, also known as a seat’s pitch, has also decreased from 35 inches to 31 inches, with some airlines even decreasing legroom to 28 inches.
    link - https://lifehacker.com/heres-how-much-leg-room-and-reclining-space-you-get-on-1797470416
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  • bootlegger10
    bootlegger10 Posts: 16,296
    edited February 2020
    And yet we get from the US to Europe in 7-8 hours instead of boarding a ship for weeks.   All of this complaining about planes is silly.   
  • deadendp
    deadendp Northeast Ohio Posts: 10,434
    bootlegger10 said:
    And yet we get from the US to Europe in 7-8 hours instead of boarding a ship for weeks.   All of this complaining about planes is silly.   
    My lil great grandpa sailed here from Poland through Bremen, Germany. What was supposed to be a week long trip took 3 weeks. 2 people died, one of scarlet fever and one washed overboard. They had 6 hours of good sailing weather the entire time. Oh, and they were transporting 20,000 songbirds. 
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,956
    When the hell are the two holiday singles being released?!
    ;)
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,762
    F Me In The Brain said:
    When the hell are the two holiday singles being released?!
    ;)

    :lol:
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,762
    If you recline for the first time do you simply cline?
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    They need to remove the recline or the tray table.  The two simply can't coexist.

    Get rid of the recline!
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  • PureandEasy
    PureandEasy Posts: 5,818
    deadendp said:
    I do not recline. That's rude. 

    I have been stuck in that seat that the dude was in. (Southwest and ending up in the last boarding group.) It was unpleasant. I am claustrophobic anyhow. A plane is a test for me. The ass end of a plane has a high pitch whistle and if I recall, it pitched a bit. There are so many things about that seat that shouldn't be anyhow, but he needn't be an asshole about it. I don't believe it was a transcontinental flight. He would have survived just fine without the fit. However, I don't believe that the lady was a prize either.  
    The man should not have punched her seat repeatedly.  However, he has no option to recline, he was in the very last row.  If I'm not mistaken, this woman already had back issues and that was the reason she needed to recline.  I also believe it was less than a 3 hour flight.  If both are the case, the woman with back issues should have purchased a ticket that guaranteed her more room. If she can't go 3 hours without discomfort and has to recline, that's on her to make sure she is comfortable.  Booking economy leaves you with little room to begin with, if she absolutely had to recline, she should not have booked economy.  

    I could be wrong about the details.  This woman claiming all these injuries from this incident is just looking to make a bundle from the airline.  That's my take on this.
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  • craigraether
    craigraether Posts: 1,661
    My Car seat goes all the way back, however if someone is in the rear seat i give them space.... just because it can recline doesnt mean you should ... esp in this case where the last row does not recline. The guy could not recline his seat to compensate for lost space...
    I travel a lot, be respectful .. woman should not recline, guy should not punch the seat..Both wrong. .. The real solution is to call customer service when you land, request a travel voucher for your trouble of being reclined on with no help from the flight staff.
  • myoung321
    myoung321 Posts: 2,855
    rgambs said:
    They need to remove the recline or the tray table.  The two simply can't coexist.

    Get rid of the recline!
    Bring back the room to recline.... 
    "The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera." - Yusuf Karsh
     


  • craigraether
    craigraether Posts: 1,661
    My pops told me a story, on  flight to asia. The guy across the isle had his laptop screen ripped off when the guy in front of him reclined and the top of the laptop was wedged into the area where the tray came out of the seat back. He said the guy was screaming bloody murder.

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