Friday thread - reclining air seats

jds_1981

Always seems to get people hot under the collar. I'm an unashamed recliner. I'll normally recline & always will do if I try to sleep, else I'll spend a day with a painful neck.
I believe many people get annoyed because they view the space in front of them between the person in fronts most reclined location and full upright location is theirs when clearly it isn't.

Where do you stand?

rubertoe

I'm a recliner, as soon as I can.

If they didnt want me to recline they would make it so.

peat

I did my dissertation on the subject! (seriously)

I put forward to design of seat mechanism that moved the base forward as the back reclined. That way, the only person you are inconveniencing is yourself.

As a loftier gentleman, i find the person infront jamming their seat onto my knees/headrest into my nose, 5 minutes into a 14hr flight to be rather grating.

jds_1981

The top doesn't move that far back & the base can't move more than a few cms. If you're of such proportions I presume you also pull the magazines out of the seat back?
Perhaps they should make a location you can pay for that gives you a bit more leg room?

Kieran_Burns

jds_1981 wrote:

The top doesn't move that far back & the base can't move more than a few cms. If you're of such proportions I presume you also pull the magazines out of the seat back?
Perhaps they should make a location you can pay for that gives you a bit more leg room?

One of the VERY best things about working for an airline was that they always gave staff the over-wings exit seats... the ones with the huge legroom. Every time I flew I always got these ones - and stretch...

Well, I say the very best... the ID90s were pretty good as well. 8)

t4tomo

I only travel business class.

Nah seriously, recline if you want to ,its what is there for, but when food or drinks are served I normally crank it back up to somewhere between stright and halfway reclined as it impossible to eat behind a fully reclined seat.

I have been known to ask the person in front to straighten up a bit during meal service, if they decline I make sure I knock their seatback every 2 minutes with an exaggerated sorry until they get the message or a fight starts.

rhext

Don't see what the big issue is. Last time I flew, everyone just drank their champagne, reclined the seats to horizontal and then slept until the flight attendants brought breakfast round :-)

peat

rhext wrote:

Don't see what the big issue is. Last time I flew, everyone just drank their champagne, reclined the seats to horizontal and then slept until the flight attendants brought breakfast round :-)

Where i can, i check-in online as early as possible to try and get the exit-row seats. I usually take it on the chin if i miss-out, but can blow a fuse if i see children/small people in those seats, luxuriating in their ample fart-filled space. :evil:

cyclingprop

With 34" inside legs, the mere thought of the person in front reclining is painful. Even fully upright, more often than not my knees are jabbed a fair way into the seat in front (or the magazine holders into my knees).

FoldingJoe

If I see the person in front trying to recline I generally push forwards with my arms so they cannot - they soon give up thinking the mechanism is broken!!

Then I'll recline myself.

rick_chasey

Don't see why they have them tbh.

Somewhere down the line someone's losing out on space.

ride_whenever

I do it when I can, but I wouldn't recline onto the person behind unless they are reclined.

Fireblade96

I can't stand the "must recline NOW cos the seatbelt light's gone out" people.
I sit and kick the back of their seats for the rest of the flight :twisted:

jds_1981

Fireblade96 wrote:

I can't stand the "must recline NOW cos the seatbelt light's gone out" people.
I sit and kick the back of their seats for the rest of the flight :twisted:

Someone tried doing something to the back of my seat once when I reclined. They got bored after about 5 minutes. No persistence.

Fireblade96

I may choose to recline my seat after dinner, but while others are eating or trying to work it's just inconsiderate. I've had to lever the offending seat off my laptop screen more than once - the screen was what was preventing them reclining further, and isn't really designed to take that sort of load !

roger_merriman

cyclingprop wrote:

With 34" inside legs, the mere thought of the person in front reclining is painful. Even fully upright, more often than not my knees are jabbed a fair way into the seat in front (or the magazine holders into my knees).

ha snap! I end up standing/walking on flights etc.

kelsen

When my son was small and was required to sit on my lap during the flight, the girl in front, having chosen her seat after me (easyjet cattle class) and knowing full well there was a parent and child behind, immediately reclined her seat when the seatbelts lights went off. I understand she has a right to use the facility, but with a little common sense she could've picked a different seat, or at least realise she was leaving me and my son very little room by moving her seat back. I could've asked politely but I was already cranky from getting to the airport and the girl's inconsideration annoyed me even more, so I knee'd the back of her seat (a bit harder than I intended admittedly) and made her whole seat jolt, then loudly chastised my son to sit still. The girl turned round and said "do you need a little more room?" and pushed her seatback up

SimonAH

Massive personal bugbear as I fly a lot.

IMO

1) On shorthaul (where generally 70% are on business and need to work) the option to recline should not be present except on night flights.
2) On longhaul don't even fcuking THINK of reclining before the lights are out.
3) In fact you should not be permitted to recline unless the cabin lights are out full stop.

And don't even get me started on fucktards that sneak everything into carry on baggage and make life hideous for those of us who understand that waiting ten minutes for a carousel to give us our bags back from the hold means tha A) we don't dress like tramps for the week, and Every right minded person doesn't think we are a total cnut as we ram our bag into the overhead locker with a flurry of rabbit punches and shoulder drives crushing my neatly folded jacket and small laptop bag (breaking the Oakleys in my jacket)

+1 for exit rows though!

However I have to say that 85% of the time I fly business and pay economy. The secret will be published in my will.

And lastly, if you fly Ryanair or Sleazyjet then suck it up. Your fault for being cheap (or working for a cheap company). You knew what you were getting when you paid for the ticket.

Kieran_Burns

SimonAH wrote:

...rant...

However I have to say that 85% of the time I fly business and pay economy. The secret will be published in my will.

...other bit of rant...

Suit and a smile. Everyone who works for an airline knows this

SimonAH

Hee! Almost Keiran (and sorry for the ranting, but it really gets me by the snoot).

jejv

rhext wrote:

Don't see what the big issue is. Last time I flew, everyone just drank their champagne, reclined the seats to horizontal and then slept until the flight attendants brought breakfast round :-)

Yeah. What's this "person behind" business ? Is that the flight attendant ?

Then, on one flight to LAX, I think I walked about ten miles round the cabin.

cyclingprop

roger merriman wrote:

cyclingprop wrote:

With 34" inside legs, the mere thought of the person in front reclining is painful. Even fully upright, more often than not my knees are jabbed a fair way into the seat in front (or the magazine holders into my knees).

ha snap! I end up standing/walking on flights etc.

Totally. On the plus side on a decent airline you end up often treated like royalty by the cabin crew (provided you have a smile and a sense of humour!).