Use your common sense in solving this problem.  Target the airlines not the person sitting in front of you –  who purchased a ticket equal to yours.

This is not the problem for the public to solve.  If the airline makes seats to recline then they have to allow enough space for it to happen.  Once a ticket is purchased it is then in the hands of the airlines which is the problem.  The airlines keeps squeezing the space for a person to sit  and that is what is happening.  They can move these seats back to a comfortable position for all; but, no, they want to squeeze as many people to the point that you cannot enter the window and middle seat without the person exiting that first seat.  Fuss at the airlines not the ticket purchaser.  They bought their ticket like you did with the same accommodations.  In the earlier days, a person could enter any seat without everyone moving out to allow someone into their seat.

The seat problem causes delay in people exiting to go the bathroom or exiting the plane because everybody has to move out for one person to enter or exit.

It is time for the airlines to make all seats comfortable for entrance and exit – not just first class.  Economy class is just as important as first class.  It is ridiculous for the price they charge for first class to give you space, a blanket, and a drink – and the food stinks.

The airlines need to accommodate the public not in reverse.  The airlines are beginning to operate like a third-world country – people bringing their own food on board and all kinds of food and packaging on the floor and bathrooms.  They have cut back not improved.  Also the personnel on board should be happy they have a job and not be so “unfriendly in the sky.”

They need to improve their services period…..

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Is it wrong to recline your airline seat?

Debate rages again after American Airlines incident

Christopher Elliott, Special to USA TODAY

February 15, 2020

The debate about whether it’s a jerk move to recline your economy airline seat has begun raging all over again following a recent incident on a Jan. 31 American Eagle flight in which a fed-up passenger punched the seat of the woman in front of him to get her to put her seat back in the upright position.

In a Twitter thread that’s still raging a week after the first post was published, the passenger seated in front, whose name is Wendi Williams, said she initially accommodated his request not to recline her seat while he was eating. But when he finished his meal, she once again reclined her seat and that’s when the drama began.

“He was angry that I reclined my seat and punched it about 9 times – HARD, at which point I began videoing him,” she wrote in a Feb. 8 tweet, nominating the other passenger for “Jackhole of the Week” on the Bravo show “Watch What Happens Live.”

After she filmed his behavior, Williams noted that “the punching subsided, but he continued with the behavior you see in the video. I thought the video would stop it altogether. It didn’t and neither did the (flight attendant). Thanks @AmericanAir”
Nevertheless, Williams said in a follow-up post that when she complained, the attendant was rude to her and took the man’s side in the dispute.

“She rolled her eyes at me and said, “What?” She then told him it was tight back there and gave him rum! She told me I had to delete the video! It’s against the law to video on a plane. I asked her name & She gave me a Passenger Disturbance Notice!”

So who’s the bad guy here?

(The airlines are the bad guy because you purchased a seat that reclines and if you can’t recline, if you want to – then they are false advertising, plain and simple.  You are not getting what you paid for.)

Wiliams went public on Feb. 7, saying she’d tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue via DMs with American, though the altercation happened on an American Eagle regional flight operated by Republic Airways.

The next day, in a tweet to American, she reported that she had been experiencing severe headaches since the incident and had seen a doctor and had X-rays. She also noted that she’d previously had multiple neck surgeries, including a fusion of her cervical vertebrae.

Williams said an American customer service representative acknowledged in a DM that she had the right to recline her seat but the incident could have been avoided if the two had been more polite to one another.

Jon Austin, a spokesman for Republic Airways, told USA TODAY that the airline was aware of the customer dispute on Flight 4392 and was looking into the matter.
Many commenters saw Williams as either the villain – or at least equally at fault.

“While he acted inappropriately w/his response to you, you both bear fault,” @Siren_Karma told Williams in a comment. “I think you are attention-seeking by claiming injury regardless if you have prior back surgery you should have said something at the time of incident.”

“I am sorry but as a larger man 6′ 2″ and 250lbs it is incredibly rude to recline back into someone’s lap,” wrote @Jeff17097807. “The seats are to damn close to each other to begin with and when you recline you are in my lap. As far as I am concerned you got what you deserved.”

“Most folks with a shred of decency don’t recline their seats if the person behind them is in the back row,” wrote @AnneArcher18. “His behavior was not okay, but neither was yours.”

USA TODAY Travel columnist Christopher Elliott is of the belief that reclining your economy-class seat isn’t simply rude, it’s practically immoral.

“Reclining your airline seat is unacceptable because we’re officially out of space. It’s rude – and it’s wrong,” he wrote in a November 2019 column laying out his case, parts of which follow below.

Why it’s wrong to recline your seat

There’s no space to recline. Airlines are trying to squeeze more passengers on a plane to make more money. Before airline deregulation, many economy class seats had a generous 36 inches of “pitch,” a rough measure of legroom. Today, some seats have as little as 28 inches.

If you recline your airplane seat, you’ll probably end up in someone’s lap. Literally.
“I feel most folks would rather sacrifice the 2 inches of reclining backward not to have someone sitting in their lap for the distance of a flight,” says Mary Camillo, a travel advisor from Middletown, New Jersey. “Airlines should instill in passengers what parents have been trying to instill in their children for years. That is, if you do not have enough to share with everyone, then wait until you do.”

Also, airlines should immediately stop using the phrase “Sit back, relax, and enjoy the flight.” That’s an invitation to lean back all the way. But it’s a cruel joke.
Isn’t it my right to recline my airplane seat?

Another pro-recline argument: If the seat can recline, shouldn’t you be able to?
No, you shouldn’t.

You can do a lot of things on a plane. For example, you can tell your life story to your seatmate. You can eat a Limburger cheese and Bermuda onion sandwich. You can press the flight attendant call button repeatedly. But all are probably bad ideas.

“Seat recline is a moral issue,” says Jennifer Aspinwall, a frequent air traveler who writes the World On A Whim blog. “What do you do if the person in front of you reclines all the way? What if you turn around to discover that a 6-foot-4 passenger is seated behind you?

Do you eat your meal in your lap while the tray table cuts into your stomach or do recline as well and crush the legs of the person behind you?”
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Reclining a seat is wrong.

Airlines should lock seats

So if there’s no room to recline your airplane seat, and it’s wrong, why do so many airlines still allow it? Because if they didn’t, it would be an admission that they no longer care about your comfort. Airlines are stacking you into a plane like cargo – no two ways about it.

“I wish all airlines would eliminate the recline function,” says Larry Hickerson, a retired Air Force inspector and million-miler from Peoria, Arizona. “Since airlines went to ridiculously tight pitches, recline sets up an untenable situation.”

Right now, about half the people reading this column probably want to name their firstborn after me. The other half want to kill me. And the airline folks? They’re laughing.

The airline industry loves the seat reclining argument because it divides us. And while we’re arguing about 2 inches of personal space, they’re busy collecting more money from passengers and slowly – ever so slowly – removing even more room. This debate is the perfect distraction.

Whether you think reclining your airline seat is wrong or not, let’s agree on one thing: Greedy airlines got us to this point. Fighting over the scraps of space won’t fix it. If we needed thoughtful government regulation, maybe it is now.

(No, we don’t need another government regulation.  We need the airlines to stop intruding on people.  Pretty soon they will want us to clean up all the mess in the plane before we exit like we have to in fast food places.  We are actually working for the small businesses.  But, on second thought – why are people so messy for starters?)

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Is it wrong to recline your airline seat? Debate rages again after American Airlines incident.

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Stand up for your rights – it’s the airlines’ fault.

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