The etiquette of reclining seats on flights

dandelionclock30

VestanPance wrote: »

Don't worry. You wouldn't sleep with me behind you as I'd be kicking your chair for the duration of the flight, or until the seat was moved back to the upright position.

Personally I think the ability to recline the chairs should be removed if the aircraft can't provide adequate leg room for the properly evolved.

Yeah but if you do this one day someone will just jump up and smack you in the face.Honestly some people are not bothered and would just assault you no problem,even if you are big and tall.
Some people will just lose their temper at the drop of a hat and tolerance can be short on flights.
If you really cant manage you need to book the seats with more leg space. Economy seats dont have enough room even for the short so I dont know how tall people manage.

Cardew

Murphy_The_Cat wrote: »

I liked the days of "more room in Coach" which was AA's marketing when they took out some seat rows to give the extra seating space.

IIRC, those were the times before the government started to treat airline passengers as cash cows.

Being 6'5" and travelling 6 times a year to the USA, I started flying AA soon after their 'More Room throughout Coach' programme started.

American Air to Put More Room in Coach

Published: February 4, 2000

American Airlines said today that it had begun removing two rows of coach seats from all its aircraft to ease the crowded conditions faced by most passengers.
Citing its most frequent customer complaint, American said it would strip a total of about 7,200 seats from its 707-plane fleet,* or about 6.4 percent of coach capacity.
''Then we're going to use the space once occupied by those seats to provide more room for passengers throughout the cabin -- row after row after row,'' Donald Carty, chairman and chief executive of the AMR Corporation, American's parent company, which is based in Fort Worth, said at a news conference in Washington.
Among complaints he cited were being ''packed in like sardines,'' laptop computer woes, inability to cross one's legs and having a passenger in front reclining in one's lap.

When the $70 million project is complete, about 58 percent of American's coach seats will have a ''seating pitch'' of 34 inches or more.

Their transatlantic fares were no more expensive than BA etc and they had the industry's best Frequent Flyer programme. This enabled elite members to choose their seat in Coach(the attractive seats were blocked for lesser mortals!) or upgrade free using accumulated miles.

However despite all the complaints, similar to those in this thread, the experiment was a resounding failure as it attracted no more business and the extra rows were put back. Apparently a £10 cheaper flight, with another airline, was a greater incentive than extra room.


* Note 707 planes in the fleet - not a Boeing 707! The extra room programme spread to most of their long haul fleet mainly the 763 and 777

Murphy_The_Cat

Cardew wrote: »

Being 6'5" and travelling 6 times a year to the USA, I started flying AA soon after their 'More Room throughout Coach' programme started.



Their transatlantic fares were no more expensive than BA etc and they had the industry's best Frequent Flyer programme. This enabled elite members to choose their seat in Coach(the attractive seats were blocked for lesser mortals!) or upgrade free using accumulated miles.

However despite all the complaints, similar to those in this thread, the experiment was a resounding failure as it attracted no more business and the extra rows were put back. Apparently a £10 cheaper flight, with another airline, was a greater incentive that extra room.

Being bigger than the average bear, AA was always my first choice when more seats throughout coach was in operation, but sadly it is no more.

I keep hoping that I'll be able to use air NZ one time when I'm going to the US, but that happy day hasn't arrived yet

p..s I thought that it was dropped when the economy went pear shaped, along with complimentary drinks, 3 class travel etc etc on some flights.