The DM has just put up an article about reclining seats on planes and it made me wonder people's thoughts? Some seem to get really irate about the person in front of them reclining, some won't move theirs out of consideration for the person behind (aka fear they'll piss them off?)
Personally I don't tend to recline often on a day-time flight, and never on a short journey, but if I'm on an 8 hour night-flight there's no way I'm staying upright the whole way. The people in front and behind have paid just as much for their equally-moveable seats so they are free to do what they like.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Long plane journeys piss me off, I feel like a bloody veal calf in its stall. I really do think there should be bigger spaces between the seats on long haul flights. And yeah I know it's never going to happen whilst they can charge a huge amount more to upgrade to first class.
I'm not locked in here with you, you are locked in here with me.
I've got long legs - I make use of my knees - that's if the guy infront hasn't shattered my kneecaps when reclining
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
It's around the same time that my knees get all achy and I have to grip hard on the seat in front to get up and either stretch my legs or use the lav. And, another unbelievable co-incidence, I tend to get really thirsty as well, necessitating lots of fluids and lav trips.
Yet, when the person in front is reasonable, the IFE thing works fine, my knees are okay and I'm not parched.
Would you credit it, eh?
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I find the Daily Mail a lot more offensive than a seat in the face :-)
Personally, I think it's OK to recline on a long haul flight. I def. don't think it's grounds for being pissed off if the person in front reclines. Tables don't move on United 747's...and they are about as bad a plane that's flying are the moment.
On Royal Air Maroc last year I had a seat that wouldn't recline on the flight out and a seat that wouldn't stay upright on the way back.
On the plus side, on average they cancelled each other out.