Someone is being inconsiderate by expecting the person in front not to make themselves more comfortable by using a facility built into their seat.

Someone in front who reclines a seat despite knowing it will affect someone behind is also inconsiderate, e.g. during meal times.

Bottom line, if you are 6'5" and decide to travel in Y, you know what you are going to receive and its your decision alone and thus your responsibility.
I agree with Tightslot that conflict in an aircraft is best avoided and you must take responsibility for your decision.

Here's hoping that your journey goes as well as it can.

BTW, I travel over 100 flights per year and as I wish to work on board, I pay the difference between Y and C to buy the space necessary to do this.

So please no lectures about the cost of premium class as it is many thousands of euros a year out of my wallet and I pay this gladly as I realize that Y is not designed to do serious work in and don't complain about people reclining their seats meaning that I can't open my laptop with a 30" seat pitch.

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You have no moral justification to inflict your selfish & narrow minded ways on other passengers that have paid for the privelidge of using the seat as it was sold to them.

So, if my long legs block someone from reclining their seat, and I have been unable to procure a seat elsewhere through the check-in agent's refusal to move me or my inability to afford a higher class, I am selfish and narrow minded? (I am assuming you have the means to fly first class whenever you like?)

And you call others selfish? LOL!!!!!!!!

Oh and I don't recline my seat either, unless the seat behind is empty. I don't actually view it as a right."


I pay for my own flights and and fly economy. I have better things to do with my 'hard earned' than waste it on first class. I just respect the rights of others around me who expect to be able to use what is sold to them.

I would also show & expect courtesy fro those around me. A polite request to give a little room would always be met with a positive response. The 'stuff you Jack' attitude that I was responding to would be met with a deaf ear.

Some thought and cosideration for others was my point and meant for all sides.

Is there a standard amount for seats to recline ?

In my somewhat limitd exprience it has varied from the top of the seat in front getting about 2" closer to something like 6" in one case.

I didnt mind the 2" but the 6" was very unplesant.

In November I had an unpleasant BA flight with the row infront of me with 3 very large men. It was LHR-HKG so it was a very long flight, not only did they recline, it went over the normal recline as they were so big and heavy.

Nothing I could really do with them so I just had to live with it :rolleyes: It didn't impress my partner who was his first long haul travel experience. Never again he says!

I know how the recline can be a pain for the person behind so I never fully recline, only half. On a 747 the best seats in economy is when it becomes 3-4-3 to 2-4-2, so much more space! So hard to get though :sad:

I'm looking forward to seeing Cathay Pacific's new fixed back design. With it sliding forward it would restrict the aisle access for the other passengers. But then with the current seats it's a lot easier if the passengers move out for you anyway.

The problem with the Cathay seat is that its now reversed...if you recline your seat...you have to hope that the person in front reclines theres or else you knees (if tall) will jam into their lower seat back!!!! So instead of complaining that the person in front has reclined onto you...it will now be the person behind has reclined onto you!