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Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me
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Re: Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me
#42How about you pay me to recline into my lap. I'm a tall guy. Each and every time I take a flight someone tries to recline because my lap is a seemingly good spot to rest. However given my stature I can just push their right back up into it's upright position with my knees. There isn't much to be done about that, is there?
You paid for the recline space behind you. The person in front paid for the space in front of your face. That's obviously the deal. If you hassle the person in front, you are the problem. You can choose to pay extra for the bulkhead/exit row if you want or need a different deal.
You paid for the recline space behind you.
Actually, if you look at the airline's contract of carriage, you paid a lot of money for, well, basically nothing whatsoever, especially in the US. You really ought to be on your knees offering prayers of thanksgiving for the fact that they let you on the plane at all once they got hold of your money; as to some sort of right to reclining space by virtue of having bought a ticket, well, that's just plain laughable.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, I'm pretty tall. It is at the least awkward, if not very uncomfortable for someone to recline. It depends on the plane, but those interstate mosquitoes you get on flights between small cities are the absolute worst. I know it's en vogue to treat everything as an economic exercise to show off that business course you took for your undergrad, but some things are really a matter of being a decent person. I've…
Because you have no right to do so, you're just being a jerk. If it's such a problem for you, buy 2 seats on every flight so you can ensure the seat in front of you is empty.
They'll fill the seat anyway once you haven't checked in.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you don't want to sit behind a seat that reclines you can pay extra for the first row. Or on Southwest pay extra for boarding group A. Regardless, when you bought your ticket you buy it with the knowledge that there is a seat in front of you that reclines.
Yes, I buy a seat knowing that when I sit in the seat my knees will be up against the seat in front of me. The seat in front of me has nowhere to recline. My knees have become used to the pressure over the course of hundreds of flights. At my height (2 meters) there is little alternative. Passengers in front of me have asked me to move seats, avoid air travel and invited me to go to hell. In my opinion, your 'right'…
There's no denying the geometry of it, but you are being selfish by thinking you have the right to wedge yourself in a seat that's too small for you. Just because it's the cheapest option doesn't mean it's appropriate for you.
I'm 198 cm and I only fly in first, or in an exit row if needed.
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#45I don't understand why airlines don't just disable recline in one half of the economy-class cabin, and then let passengers choose whether they want to sit in the reclining or non-reclining side. I'm 5'10" (almost exactly average for men) but I still like having extra space for using my laptop or iPad. I also don't really benefit from recline because I never sleep on flights. So I would really like having the option t…
They do - it's called "first class".
Re: Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me
#46You're flying though the air at 550mph - a feat thought impossible a mere 100 years ago. I can't believe the things people find to complain about. Are our lives so boring that this drivel is actually printworthy?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Okay, if that's how you feel, there are plenty of options. Choose a different airline, take your chances that someone reclines in their seat, sit in the front row, check in earlier or pay more money. Those are all valid options. The idea that you somehow control the right of the person in front of you to recline (a right which they actually paid money to use) is rather selfish and not a valid option.
The idea that someone gets to invade my personal space is rather selfish and not a valid option. If I don't want you imposing on me, then I will make sure that damn well doesn't happen.
You seem to be too quick to label the person in front of you 'selfish' when it is you who expects him to give up his comfort he paid for so that you can enjoy one that you did not pay for. He has no such obligations. I think someone else is being a selfish freeloader here.
Inside an aircraft, space is for sale, if you need more, pay for it, or rail against airlines to provide you better service. The person in front of you is simply collecting what he/she paid for.
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#48Re: Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me
#49> Tall people earn more money than short people, an average of $789 per inch per year, according to a 2004 paper in the Journal of Applied Psychology. What an absurdly childish argument. Just because on average tall people earn more, it doesn't follow that every tall person on a flight would be able to afford to pay someone not to put them in an uncomfortable situation. He's talking about effectively exploiting someo…
Give me a break. Is it absurdly childish to give pregnant women special seats on a bus because in general they are less mobile? It's common to base a social norm on the general characteristics of a class of people.
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#50I feel like this whole issue was largely resolved by Jet Blue who gives a couple of more inches of space. Even if someone reclines, I felt like I wasn't being invaded by the person's seat. Of course now they charge for higher legroom seats...so essentially Jet Blue has done exactly what the author states. As a slightly above average 5'11" guy, I feel though that the average coach airline seat is designed as a torture…
As a 6'5" lankey mess of a spaghetti noodle, I absolutely hate flying (or sitting on buses, despite my undying love for mass transit... but I digress).
I had a guy turn around and yell at me once because he tried to recline, my knees got jammed beneath his chairback, so I quickly snapped them out. He thought I was protesting against his recline by kicking the back of his chair. I tried to explain to him that my legs were just stuck and needed to move them, thus the literal knee-jerk reaction, but he wanted nothing to do with it.
But I guess if presented with the opportunity to be shorter, I wouldn't take it no matter the circumstances; I love being tall.