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<p>The Golden Rule is problematic here. I don’t care if the seat in front of me is reclined. I certainly prefer the person in front of me to be able to recline, if that’s what it takes to allow me to recline too.</p>
<p>I let people recline a couple of inches because I recline too except when eating or instructed by the flight crew. I figure it’s better for everyone’s back not to sit up straight for a long time.</p>
<p>I also don’t mind if people just recline an inch or two-- as I said, I don’t like it when I have another person’s head in my lap. You have to recline pretty much all the way for that to happen, and people do it all the time. PERSONALLY, I would think it would be uncomfortable for the other person to have their head in a stranger’s lap. </p>
<p>And I’m not a big person. I am 5’7 and not overweight. If I am too big to fly on a plane there is something seriously wrong.</p>
<p>I agree hunt, that is exactly what will happen. It won’t bother me but I guess I will be sympathetic to people it will bother, since I have been so appreciative of people who have been sympathetic to me! 
I am holding out hope that it will still be too loud in the plane for most people to want to strike up a conversation over the phone.</p>
<p>Airplane seats are not as standardized as we would think. Size of plane and carrier can make a difference, as can length of journey. </p>
<p>I guess the way to be most considerate would be assessing the situation on the flight before engaging in any behaviors that might offend the people around you. </p>
<p>Listening to other people on cell phones can be annoying. If texting was allowed, clearly that would be non-ruptive to others in your vicinity.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can compare recline seats with loud obnoxious (as it usually is) cell phone talking. Reclining doesn’t wake anyone up. I would never consider asking the person in front of me to not sleep, so I could have a little more room. Consideration goes both ways. There are a thousand ways to be considerate of others on a flight.</p>
<p>I am a small person, so it doesn’t bother me when people recline to a certain degree. But if they recline it all the way, my head doesn’t reach over top of the seat so I do have a bit of a problem. However, I always prefer that people look before reclining. I think I’ve posted this before in the express bus context, but I was once on a bus when someone reclined aggressively and caused a bloody face to the woman behind who had bent over to pick something up.</p>
<p>What flights allow you to have a seat recline into another person’s lap? I am being serious. </p>
<p>This is kind of an interesting article. </p>
<p>[Airline</a> squeeze: It’s not you, ‘it’s the seat’ - CNN.com](<a href=“http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/30/travel/airline-seats/index.html]Airline”>http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/30/travel/airline-seats/index.html)</p>
<p>Moving around in your seat is much harder to do if stationary the whole flight and can actually cause DVT. </p>
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<p>^^yes, zoosermom, I’ve had some close calls with aggressive recliners! If everyone was considerate on flights, they would be so much easier. People are sometimes so oblivious. I’ve trained my mind to consider kicking my seat as a form of back massage.</p>
<p>I always think if people look behind them, they will know if it is too far. If the person behind you has eyes bugging out because the top of your seat is in his throat, it’s too far. If the person is sitting sideways because there is no leg room, it is also too far. It’s not really that much to ask.</p>
<p>Rachel Weisz is lucky she can fly like this on long flights.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.indiaprwire.com/downloads/photo/201002/12087.jpg[/url]”>http://www.indiaprwire.com/downloads/photo/201002/12087.jpg</a></p>
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<p>The standard recline for most seat backs is 1-3 inches. </p>
<p>On Spirit air, reclining might cause grievous injury to the passenger behind you?. What other airlines have deeper reclines besides some international flights?</p>
<p>['Inattentive</a> parents’ top list of worst fliers - NBC News.com](<a href=“http://www.nbcnews.com/travel/inattentive-parents-top-list-worst-fliers-2D11709202]'Inattentive”>'Inattentive parents' top list of worst fliers )</p>
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<p>I guess they didn’t poll CCers!</p>
<p>Drunk self important guy sitting across the aisle from me, talking loudly on his cell phone. Can’t imagine being stuck with that in the air. Plus the heavy whiff of booze.</p>
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<p>You can get it by paying more. Those are both premium seats. Like many airlines Delta is on the cutting edge of Extra Charge theory. And in this case you are paying an extra fee for the luxury of not sitting in perpetual discomfort for the entire flight and for a lowered risk of getting your knees painfully crushed when the forward seat comes flying back.</p>
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<p>Apparently it is too much to ask. In all the hundreds of flights I’ve taken over the decades I’ve had the person ahead of me look back before reclining the seat maybe twice.</p>
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<p>Reclining certainly does wake you up when you get your knees crushed. As Hunt has said cell phone yakking and seat reclining are highly comparable, because the incidence of both will be driven by people who care only about themselves and will assert their “rights” regardless of the effect it has on others. </p>
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<p>It’s interesting to hear people on this thread thinking their right to a couple inches of reclining is more important than my ability to sit in my seat without perpetual discomfort.</p>
<p>You must be very large, coureur. Most people would never get their knees crushed even by someone reclining fully. If you are that large, you should always spend the extra money to get a roomier seat. I wouldn’t even notice if the person in front of me reclined a bit. A couple of inches of someone reclining in front of you causing perpetual discomfort? You’re either exaggerating, flying cut rate carriers… can’t imagine which ones, or a giant.</p>
<p>LOL. ^^^ Post of the day.</p>
<p>Reclining never bothered me all that much (I’m not very big), except when I used to try to work on a computer. Sometimes that made it so I could not open the computer enough to work. Now that I use an iPad on planes, it isn’t a problem. Flying is not pleasant, but the reclining issue is not my top peeve. I’m just happy to get to my destination safely and more or less on time and have my luggage, which I check (free on Southwest) make it, too!</p>
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<p>I’m 6’1" which is tall but not unusually so. There are plenty of other people on most flights who are even taller. I’m certainly not a giant.</p>
<p>And in the coach cabin of most major carriers (not cut-rate discounts), my knees firmly touch the seat back in front of me when we are on the ground and all the seats are fully upright. So when the one in front of me gets reclined my legs immediately go from just-barely-fit to not-enough-room, hence the constant discomfort from there on out. </p>
<p>And when I happen to not be looking when the seat comes flying back and I fail to dodge out of the way in time, my knees most certainly do get painfully crushed. It has happened over and over.</p>
<p>Perhaps you have very long legs. I would always get an exit row .</p>
<p>I get where you’re coming from, coureur. My family has long legs, too. Although, I don’t get squeezed (only 5’7"), my mom and family members are taller (5’11" to 6’5") get squished. Short people just don’t understand! ;)</p>
<p>The last flight I was on, the person in front reclined their seat. It wasn’t jammed into my legs, but I could no longer cross my legs without rubbing against their seat which they expressed they didn’t enjoy! :eek:</p>
<p>So you know what is flashing as the ad on the top of my cc page?</p>
<p>“Want more legroom to Harrisburg?” Ad from Delta, for economy comfort seats.</p>
<p>Where do you think I am right now, and how did I get here? Yes, it’s Harrisburg, on Delta, but it was in first class, not economy comfort. And here we are talking about legroom. Kind of weird!</p>