Surprised no one has commented on this yet:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/trav...0200218-xq62vfb5cnbadnmabkziikx7ta-story.html
It was an 80-minute flight (so seatbacks had to be upright for at least 20 minutes of that time, anyway).
I saw the video, in my opinion, the guy banging on the lady's seat was being a jerk. Apparently, the flight attendant sided with the man, and even gave him a free cocktail. If I had been the flight attendant, I would have told him to suck it up, act like a man and tolerate the situation. If I had complete control over the aircraft, I would have diverted the plane to the nearest town with an Amtrak station, kicked the guy off the plane, bought him an Amtrak ticket and told him he'll have all the legroom he wants.
By the way, the problem with the seat recline isn't the actual legroom, it's that you can't lower the tray table down when the seat in front is reclining. The villain isn't people who recline seats, it's the airlines, who insist on cramming more seats into the available space. But then, I guess everybody wants cheap airline tickets. This is what you get, and I see no reason why the needs or desires of the man behind the recliner supercede the needs and desires of the person in front reclining their seat.
I guess we're going to have to wait for the first crash where people die because they can't squirm out of their overpacked seats in time to escape before we will get sensible regulation on this matter.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/trav...0200218-xq62vfb5cnbadnmabkziikx7ta-story.html
It was an 80-minute flight (so seatbacks had to be upright for at least 20 minutes of that time, anyway).
I saw the video, in my opinion, the guy banging on the lady's seat was being a jerk. Apparently, the flight attendant sided with the man, and even gave him a free cocktail. If I had been the flight attendant, I would have told him to suck it up, act like a man and tolerate the situation. If I had complete control over the aircraft, I would have diverted the plane to the nearest town with an Amtrak station, kicked the guy off the plane, bought him an Amtrak ticket and told him he'll have all the legroom he wants.
By the way, the problem with the seat recline isn't the actual legroom, it's that you can't lower the tray table down when the seat in front is reclining. The villain isn't people who recline seats, it's the airlines, who insist on cramming more seats into the available space. But then, I guess everybody wants cheap airline tickets. This is what you get, and I see no reason why the needs or desires of the man behind the recliner supercede the needs and desires of the person in front reclining their seat.
I guess we're going to have to wait for the first crash where people die because they can't squirm out of their overpacked seats in time to escape before we will get sensible regulation on this matter.