<p>You are going to have to turn off location services, clear your history and cookies. </p>
<p>That is creepy.</p>
<p>I’m only 5’-9" tall, but I have very long legs. Yes, it IS a problem when people recline. Last week, I got lucky and was given an exit row seat and two bulkhead ones (I had to take three planes to get home).</p>
<p>It is kind of creepy. But if they knew everything about me, they wouldn’t waste the ad space to advertise things that I already do. I almost always fly economy comfort, exit row, or first class on Delta, and don’t pay extra for it.So I guess not that creepy! Now if they were advertising ultra cheap vacations to warm and inviting places, that would be truly reading my mind.</p>
<p>Just gotta say. The seats on the planes I fly on go back…but to say they “recline” is an exaggeration. They “recline” so little that sometimes I can’t even tell the seat back isn’t in the upright position.</p>
<p>Now…business class on international flights…THOSE seats recline!</p>
<p>Love those seats that go down almost completely flat! I talked to someone that flew on an A380 in first class, said their seat was completely enclosed in a compartment, like a mini hotel room!</p>
<p>Now there’s an ad up there for Sandals vacations. Save 65%. Cc, are you reading my mind?</p>
<p>Ha ha! That is great. Wonder what the next ad will be.</p>
<p>Busdriver, does the seat you’re talking about look like the one in post #151?</p>
<p>Really. Now if it’s for a discounted Apple computer, I’d be really freaked out. Haven’t searched for that on this computer.</p>
<p>Krlilies, now that’s what I’m talking about! I want a seat just like that. And I want to look just like her, too.</p>
<p>Great, now I’ll get an ad for plastic surgery, weight loss and how to lose 20 years in a day.</p>
<p>You have to dye your hair first busdriver. As for the seat, it’s not big enough though for her husband, James Bond, to lie down beside her.</p>
<p>True, dye it and grow it. Man, she’s married to Bond, too? I guess you can have it all.</p>
<p>6’3" here - my shoulders are wider than the seats, my knees are firmly planted in the back of the seat in front of me, my head sticks up above the top of the seat so it is impossible to sleep.</p>
<p>Flying sucks.</p>
<p>Sometimes I will wedge my knee against the middle of the seat so the person in front of me can’t recline their seat. They try a few times, then assume the seat is broken and give up, and I get a slightly more comfortable trip. Does that make me a bad person? Maybe, but I don’t lose sleep over it.</p>
<p>Everyone saying, get an exit row or economy plus seat, guess what? 99% of the time these seats are gone when I book. Most of the time I can’t book 6 months in advance. And I think some airlines block them out for high-level members, which I don’t fly enough to be one.</p>
<p>I can usually get an aisle seat, so I can put one leg into the aisle, and lean out into the aisle so my shoulders don’t infringe on the person next to me. I’ve been kicked and bumped more times than I can count, and slammed into by the beverage cart numerous times.</p>
<p>Last flight on Spirit I took, the seats were all non-reclining. And because they charge for carry-ons, very few people actually had them, which made planing/deplaning easier.</p>
<p>People talking on their cell phones? It’ll stink, but honestly I don’t think flying can really get much more unpleasant. Bring ear buds or NC headphones and listen to music.</p>
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This may give a tiny clue about why you don’t have much sympathy for those of us being crushed back in steerage.</p>
<p>I will note, however, that the cell phone yakkers will be in first class, too.</p>
<p>The reason why I fly that way, Hunt, is not because I pay extra. It’s because I fly all the time, so I make sure it’s always on Delta or Alaska, where I can get MQM credit on Delta. I keep getting new Amex cards to get more qualifying miles, got 35K elite qualifying miles this year on credit cards alone. All you need on Delta to get better seats are 25K miles. So if its important enough to someone like it is to me, take care of it. Go on mileage runs, take 3 legs instead of one to stay on one airline, and get credit cards like I do. Make the effort, it’s worth it.</p>
<p>I am not sure how much plane travel busdriver does for pleasure, but I do know she flies those busses in the air. Most pilots I know have weird schedules and do not fly in both directions and they vary by week. </p>
<p>So if she needs to sleep so she is rested enough to fly one of those bad boys when she gets to the next city, I wouldn’t begrudge her. I would get her a pillow and blanket. ;)</p>
<p>If I have jet lag when I get to my destination, at least I will not be operating a large plane. </p>
<p>What I have learned from this thread is the taller the passenger and the longer their legs in seat behind me, the bigger a problem this is. Good to know, especially on Southwest where we choose seats on arrival to the cabin.</p>
<p>Here’s an interesting article about reclining: [Nine</a> in 10 airline passengers want reclining seats banned, poll shows | Fox News](<a href=“http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2013/10/02/nine-in-10-airline-passengers-want-reclining-seats-banned-poll-shows/]Nine”>Nine in 10 airline passengers want reclining seats banned, poll shows | Fox News)</p>
<p>It also is suggestive about what will happen with cell phones.</p>
<p>Hey thanks for the pillow and blanket, samurai! And a glass of wine helps too. But until reading this thread, it never occurred to me, after flying over a million miles, that someone could actually get their knees crushed by reclining a few inches. Seeing as the seats recline from the top, that it can even extend into knee space seems odd. But I guess if your knees are pressed against it in the first place, that could happen.</p>
<p>A suggestion for the very long legged people, if you aren’t going to do what it takes to get elite status… ask the person in front of you to please give you a heads up if they are going to recline. Tell them that your knees already touch the seat, and it is painful when someone reclines without warning. If you are polite, most anyone would say sure, and many might say they won’t recline at all. Otherwise, people just don’t know. Those of us with average sized legs who have several inches in front of us, it really doesn’t occur that there could be some that will suffer with any slight recline. So it is much more effective to preempt problems, than to be angry and suffer.</p>
<p>I think your article is inaccurate, Hunt. 64 percent say they’ve never reclined because they’re afraid of the reaction of the person behind them? Right… I doubt the majority of people are afraid to recline.</p>
<p>It may be true that 64 % of people don’t recline their seats–my observation is that many people don’t, especially on shorter flights. But those who do–especially those who recline all the way–can create a chain reaction of reclining, and it’s just too bad for the people in the last row. But it’s pretty telling that 9 out of 10 people polled would support no reclining at all–that indicates that a lot of people have experienced the discomfort.</p>
<p>The real problem, of course, is that economy seats are just too close together (although this varies by airline). Perhaps there should be a better ratio of recline/pitch.</p>