Reclining your seat on a flight?

Is it ok to recline your seat during a flight

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Cardiffdaffs said:
If you cant afford first or business class then I feel you shouldnt have the luxury of making the person behind's flight a misery.
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The seats all recline and for a reason. Just recline your own and let the domino effect rule. If im in business im at the bar anyway. Short haul flights its not really an issue unless i need to sleep
 
John67 said:
Only recline on a night flight myself and always book a window seat and give up the other arm rest. However, if someone reclines straight away, I will ask nicely for them not to. Then if they act like a tawt I spend the rest of the flight banging the back of the seat.
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They are the worst, I had one recline before take off once only to be told to sit up by the stewardess.

That was a long flight
 
red_harrington said:
There are far worse thing people do on planes than recline:
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newusername said:
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if those happened to me, I’d ask nicely first then if ignored yank the hair down as hard as I could While moving it out of the way of my screen (unless it was a woman then the Mrs would Do it for me), if it happened again I’d then stick a chunk of chewing gum in their hair to return the pettyness and for the foot id buy a coffee and accidently on purpose Spill it on them. I can be just as much as a tw6t as any selfish git on a plane. Always start polite but if it escalates I’m childish enough to play to win. 🙈🤣
 
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I have had some experience of this issue and I have a rule that if people ask politely first then i don’t generally object unless the person behind me has an objection to me doing the same. It is when people just do it that it annoys me. I have had the annoyance of this happen on 4 occasions where people just did it without any thought or asking if i minded. 2 were male and 2 female. Generally people seem to remain upright in my experience, most of the time, but do generally ask before reclining.

Now read into this what you will, but on both occasions of asking the males to revert to upright, they both did and apologised. The twice it was a female, one told me she could do as she pleased and said to her partner there is always one on a flight and we always seem to get lumbered with them. I retorted funny that ditto here and they are usually mouthy Southerners too (I only said that for a retort, as they seemed to be from London way). Her seat then kept going back and forth several times mid flight to try to annoy me more. I let it go, as the situation had clearly put her out. The other occasion was a reply of its a seat function so you can do the same. I just said it would be polite to ask first but then I let that go too as there is little you can do when people choose to be rude and in reality the function was there. It is the not politely asking first that bothers me I guess.
 
Priv said:
if those happened to me, I’d ask nicely first then if ignored yank the hair down as hard as I could While moving it out of the way of my screen (unless it was a woman then the Mrs would Do it for me), if it happened again I’d then stick a chunk of chewing gum in their hair to return the pettyness and for the foot id buy a coffee and accidently on purpose Spill it on them. I can be just as much as a tw6t as any selfish git on a plane. Always start polite but if it escalates I’m childish enough to play to win. 🙈🤣
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There was a video of a long haired person doing that with their hair and the person did exactly what you suggested with a lot of chewing gum. Video didn’t show how it ended.

I’m 6’5” too but have never reclined / would never recline even long haul, I iust don’t consider it fair on the person behind me. If I did ever want to on a long haul overnight then I’d ask the person behind me first if they minded and would accede to their wish either way. It’s just a question of politeness and consideration for others in my opinion.

If someone reclined in front of me without asking first I’d politely ask them not to do so on account of my height and the fact they are likely to be constantly bumped in the back by knees etc if I move, therefore giving them the choice of being bumped and banged or sitting back up, they can’t then complain if I batter fck out of them, spill stuff over the top of the seat etc whilst they’re reclined.
 
Never had a problem with people in front of me reclining their chair but I've heard people make a fuss about it, usually without reason, they're probably very nervous flyers and get wound up easily.

Most flights I use these days don't have seats that recline.
 
El Guapo said:
There was a video of a long haired person doing that with their hair and the person did exactly what you suggested with a lot of chewing gum. Video didn’t show how it ended.

I’m 6’5” too but have never reclined / would never recline even long haul, I iust don’t consider it fair on the person behind me. If I did ever want to on a long haul overnight then I’d ask the person behind me first if they minded and would accede to their wish either way. It’s just a question of politeness and consideration for others in my opinion.

If someone reclined in front of me without asking first I’d politely ask them not to do so on account of my height and the fact they are likely to be constantly bumped in the back by knees etc if I move, therefore giving them the choice of being bumped and banged or sitting back up, they can’t then complain if I batter fck out of them, spill stuff over the top of the seat etc whilst they’re reclined.
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I think that vid was staged. She does just get up and walk away at the end. Kept flicking her hair and would have totally felt it. was even dunking it in coffee etc.
 
Centralscrutinizer said:
It's ok to recline your seat on any flight and I'm happy for the person in front of me to do it. The protocol is that you put your seats upright for any meal service.
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Totally agree - it doesnt bother me at all. I also don’t understand people getting upset when a kid is crying on a flight. They have my complete sympathy if anything.
 
Only when the cabit lights dim, thats my rule of thumb.

It makes my p1ss boild when someone reclines in front of me and the back of the seat is a cats c0ck hair away from my nose.
 
MagicMike said:
Totally agree - it doesnt bother me at all. I also don’t understand people getting upset when a kid is crying on a flight. They have my complete sympathy if anything.
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It can be bad though. I'm still traumatised from a long haul flight to Singapore where I had a crying baby either side of me.
👶:cry:👶
 
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