Reclining your seat

[Disney fan]

Just wondering , what are your feelings on reclining your seat.

I always feel a bit guilty when I recline seats even on long haul. I never do it before meal service and then just a little after.


Lynda:bigplane

[WillFlyToDisney2]

It depends on who is sitting behind me quite honestly. I usually only recline it if it is a long flight or if I want to snooze. If the person in front of me reclines their seat all the way back then I usually have no choice but to recline my seat so that the seat in front of me is not in my face!

I always look back to make sure the person doesn't have something on the tray then gradually ease it back a little.

:)
Kelley

[noflyingfan]

I don't really recline the seat. I don't find it comfortable, and I always feel bad too. It really irritates me when someone in front of me reclines their seat, especially without asking if I mind.

[Chelle]

Yikes, I never give it much thought... I've been obnoxious :mg

:blush

[MadScientist]

I'll only recline if I'm in first class and then only partially. In coach, I never recline and I don't let the person in front of me recline either. I recently had a man in front of me on a prop plane try to recline which sent me wincing in pain because my knees were aready uncomfortably wedged into the back of his seat. I immediately applied resistance to his chair with my hand. The man looked back at me, turned back in his seat and proceeded to push HARDER! He reclined about 2 inches before I kindly put his chair back in the upright position and told him about my knees. :boxer

[Passenger Mark]

Reading Kelley's....


Isn't nice when you are eating dinner, or working on the laptop and the ding-dong in front of you SLAMS their seat back!

When I recline, I check behind me, and ask them if they mind. And then Sloooowly recline!

[Bronze Elephant]

What lovely people how come I never get to sit behind any you?
I personally never recline as it would reduce the person's space behind me. But that is just me

[sengelin]

I only recline if reclined upon. I'm a big guy, so coach stinks under any circumstances, but with some guy's head 2 inches from my nose, you can bet I'm going to recline.

[LesliePHX]

This topic came up in a recent Miss Manners column! I never knew it was such an issue! See:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp...4Oct5.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10010-2004Oct5.html)

[beaugest]

My daughter ALWAYS gets behind a seat pooper. The person who reclines as her food is on the tray as fast and as fae back as possible. I too have used the push back on their seat as they try to recline method...
I'm very aware of not reclining because of this. The kid has weird seat karma...:dunno

[Bronze Elephant]

sengelin, that is the time to sneeze that will move his seat foreward

[CaptainStark]

I recline my seat as far as it will go after takeoff -except when I am in back. Then I don't want to invade my customer's space.

I grew up in Germany where they put the concerns of others a little higher than we do in this country. (Monica could diagnose this.)

Ray:ray

[EditorASC]

"I grew up in Germany where they put the concerns of others a little higher than we do in this country. (Monica could diagnose this.)"

[Capt. Ray]

================

I will give a shot at diagnosis:

You meant, Germans being considerate of other Germans, right?

You weren't thinking about the years of 1933-1945, when you said that? :tiphat

[Chelle]

:duck

So! how about those French? :D

/runs away

[LesliePHX]

Of course Germans put the concerns of others higher than their own! Just ask Austria. ;)

[EditorASC]

Or Poland, London, France, .............

Once, while taxiing out at O'Hare for takeoff, a Lufthansa captain got on the horn and told the tower he had to taxi back to the gate because they discovered they had more passengers on board, than they had seats.

Short pause and then someone replied, "why don't you put them in your ovens?"

The Luft Captain was heard screaming and demanding that the tower should find out who said that and he should be prosecuted.........

:cuss

[Passenger Mark]

That was a sad response to the German Captain.

I do find it odd that they backed from the gate with more passengers than seats. I have never been on a airliner where they did not make sure everyone was seated and buckled in before backing out!

[noflyingfan]

Mark, that's exactly what I thought. You'd think they would KNOW how many people were on the flight. The fact that they didn't is pretty darn scary.

Although if you don't think about how horribly unsafe it would be, the mental image of a couple dozen people standing there holding onto overhead straps like on a bus is pretty funny.

[MarcoAviator]

Short pause and then someone replied, "why don't you put them in your ovens?"

The Luft Captain was heard screaming and demanding that the tower should find out who said that and he should be prosecuted.........

Wow ... that was one hell of a rude joke.

Back on topic: I don't recline my seat cause lieing down I feel I am more "exposed" and "vulnerable" and thus my fear increases exponentially. Besides I can't sleep ...

[xiknal]

On an AeroCondor-Colombia flight from Guatemala City to Cali, Colombia (I think retrospectively it was a B-720) in 1979, we made our last of four intermediary stops in Bogota where we picked up additional passengers. I distinctly remember several Indian women in derby hats--one holding chickens--sitting in the aisle throughout the flight. There may have been a dozen people sitting in the aisle.

Anyone able to corroborate this practice or have any info on its permissibility? :\

[Passenger Mark]

AeroCondor... People and chickens :chicken wandering around in the aisle...

Ok... well there is one airline I will NEVER step foot on! :shocked

[xiknal]

I dunno if they are still around anymore! :violin

[EditorASC]

Then there was one, reported by Bob Serling (brother of Rod Serling) about the female ATC controller. She was having trouble getting some pilots to understand what she was saying. Finally, thinking her transmitter or mike may be at fault, she asked, "United 532, is my transmission fuzzy?"

Short pause and then, "I dunno honey; how old are you?"

:nono

[spleisher]

Good one Bob!:lol :rolling

[Disney fan]

Ok folks,

Keep it clean and keep it friendly please!

Lynda

[YankssRule]

I never recline my seat, I don't want to crush the person behind me...though the ones in front of me don't care. Plus, I can never sleep on a plane, not even on that very long flight to and from Italy, I was awake the entire time :coffee

I know when on the express bus, if a person reclines to fast and w/o asking me if this is OK..if my knees are crushed, I start pushing the seat w/ my knees, until eventually, they get the hint and unrecline. One time, I was so annoyed, I shoved that chair forward w/ the person still in it :angel ..I laughed so hard :rotflmao from the expression on their face. They actually flew forward off the seat :rolling . It was the funniest thing !!!


Janet :peace