Airline seats are designed to recline. You can sleep or doze during a boring flight, relax to get rid of stress. However, reclining without warning could send a drink into the lap of the person behind, and make it hard for them to get out and go to the toilet.
In the good old days you simply reclined on long haul flights. When you all finished eating and trays were collected, everybody rushed to the toilets. Then the lights dimmed and that was the signal to sleep. Everybody reclined. Those who were not lucky with their seating arrangement and wanted more room, kept their eyes open for a set of three seats so they could lie down.
Nowadays you might want to rest on a series of short flights or even just one. It would be polite to warn those behind that you are about to recline your seat.
If you are shy, you might be afraid to start up a conversation, or worried that the person behind would object.
Equally annoying, is the person behind you bumping the back of your seat. I was once woken by people behind continually banging. it was a kid jumping up and down.
On another occasion, constant banging turned out to be two ladies playing snap with playing cards and banging the cards down on the tray tables.
They did not speak English. I did not imagine they were prepared to stop playing. I spied an empty seat elsewhere and moved.
Usually when seats have to be raised for take off and landing or during meal service, the plane staff will walk up and down the aisles telling people to raise their seats.
This is much better than passengers taking action. The person giving the instruction has authority. They are trained to speak politely and quietly with a smile. They have the polite turn of phrase to explain why. Everybody is given the same instruction.
The staff member can go away to avoid any glare from an aggrieved passenger. As a last resort, the staff member can call the pilot who has the option to put on the fasten seat belt sign or take other measures.
Airlines vary in their seat sizes. If you are tall, long-legged or bothered, you might like to check seat sizes and try to sit in areas which allow more room. If you are in the front row nobody can lean back on you. But you might have to pay more and risk being near crying babies.
A situation recently described involved a passenger in the last but one row. The last row cannot recline. It is a fault of airline configuration to have seats which cannot recline when the one in front comes back limiting the room. A predictable problem. Perhaps airlines should issue instructions, please warn the passenger behind before reclining.
Useful Websites
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8005477/American-Airlines-stewardess-threatened-ARREST-female-passenger-filming-man-pummeling-seat.html
singaporeair.com
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
In the good old days you simply reclined on long haul flights. When you all finished eating and trays were collected, everybody rushed to the toilets. Then the lights dimmed and that was the signal to sleep. Everybody reclined. Those who were not lucky with their seating arrangement and wanted more room, kept their eyes open for a set of three seats so they could lie down.
Nowadays you might want to rest on a series of short flights or even just one. It would be polite to warn those behind that you are about to recline your seat.
If you are shy, you might be afraid to start up a conversation, or worried that the person behind would object.
Equally annoying, is the person behind you bumping the back of your seat. I was once woken by people behind continually banging. it was a kid jumping up and down.
On another occasion, constant banging turned out to be two ladies playing snap with playing cards and banging the cards down on the tray tables.
They did not speak English. I did not imagine they were prepared to stop playing. I spied an empty seat elsewhere and moved.
Usually when seats have to be raised for take off and landing or during meal service, the plane staff will walk up and down the aisles telling people to raise their seats.
This is much better than passengers taking action. The person giving the instruction has authority. They are trained to speak politely and quietly with a smile. They have the polite turn of phrase to explain why. Everybody is given the same instruction.
The staff member can go away to avoid any glare from an aggrieved passenger. As a last resort, the staff member can call the pilot who has the option to put on the fasten seat belt sign or take other measures.
Airlines vary in their seat sizes. If you are tall, long-legged or bothered, you might like to check seat sizes and try to sit in areas which allow more room. If you are in the front row nobody can lean back on you. But you might have to pay more and risk being near crying babies.
A situation recently described involved a passenger in the last but one row. The last row cannot recline. It is a fault of airline configuration to have seats which cannot recline when the one in front comes back limiting the room. A predictable problem. Perhaps airlines should issue instructions, please warn the passenger behind before reclining.
Useful Websites
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8005477/American-Airlines-stewardess-threatened-ARREST-female-passenger-filming-man-pummeling-seat.html
singaporeair.com
About the Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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