Why do I have to pay extra when a regular seat works just fine as long as the person in front doesn’t recline? Why aren’t we telling people “If relcining is that important to you pay for business class.”

Hahaha the fact that you didn’t even understand the threat he was making is so telling of how ignorant you are about this whole thing. I’m skeptical you’ve flown even a handful of times at this point.

The fact that you think this is a fight over “extra” room and not just the bare minimum I need to be able to exist in my seat demonstrates that A) you don’t understand the issue and B) you don’t fly very often.

I think the person who wants to recline should have to ask to do it, not the other way around. That you see it otherwise implies that you think reclining isn’t impolite unless you are asked not to do it. I strongly disagree; reclining is always impolite but you can seek and receive permission if it’s important enough.

It would hopefully at least stop all this whining about how you “paid for a seat that reclines” (see: paid the extra $10 to choose a seat and somehow thinks that means you’re owed a recliner).

It’s not psycho-analysis. It’s your stated opinion. “Tough to be you,” in this circumstance literally means “I don’t care about your comfort, I only care about mine, and I will act as such.”

My most controversial frequent flyer opinion is that all airlines should board their economy seats like Southwest boards its planes.

As a no-recline absolutist who never reclines his seat even on long haul flights on principle, I am still willing to make some concessions long-haul. If the flight is over 6 hours I’m not going to begrudge someone trying to get a little more horizontal. It also helps a lot that long-haul flights are usually spaced…

Glad the masks’s off. There never was any moral or ethical justification; you just think you have a right to make yourself more comfortable and other peoples’ expense and that just sucks for them. It’s literally just “I should get to recline my seat because fuck you.”  

This is both extremely funny and sadly true. If Bernie was committed to class-first leftism a major plank of his platform would be forcing every airline to adopt Southwest’s model for boarding and seat choice and eliminate reclining seats.

I’m a child for wanting to just sit in my seat, that I paid for, and be able to fit there without having someone slam their seat into my knees? But the other person isn’t a child for intentionally vomiting on me when there are plenty of othe roptions for them to take care of their business?

Jesus, when was the last time you flew? How can you honestly believe that A) every international airport flies everywhere you want to go, when you want to go and B) that everyone has access to a major airport that isn’t nearly captured by one or maybe two airlines.

When’s the last time you flew? Because last year I flew nearly four times a month. The only “extra legroom” seats you can pay for are seats designated as such. There’s no such thing as an “extra legroom” standard economy seat; they’re all the same. Nor do you get a discount for taking a non-reclineable seat. Check…

It’s funny that you mention that, because many airlines ARE starting to remove reclining seats from their planes for exactly this reason. But planes have a very long service life so unless you’re flying brand new planes you probably haven’t noticed.

Reclining in response to reclining doesn’t actually solve the problem. Because A) at some point someone won’t be able to recline (usually the last row) and B) the biggest problem with reclining is that it hits tall peoples’ legs, and them reclining in turn doesn’t solve that problem.

Air sickness is itself a minor inconvenience. You know what’s not a minor inconvenience? Not being able to exist in the seat you paid for because some jackass decided his air sickness is more important than your legs.

So here’s the odd thing about this debate: I don’t know who you’re agreeing with. Because I think reclining is the absolute height of selfishness: you’e making yourself measurably more comfortable at the expense of someone else. But your phrasing indicates that you disagree with JudgmentalDad. So I’m at a loss at…

It 100% is space that I’m using that you are not entitled to.

I will confess to being one of those Americans who thought Rosamund Pike was American until this comment.

I’m stunned that you think TLJ left no plot threads for the third movie to continue on from. It seemed pretty clear to me that the threads were all there: Rey as a new kind of Jedi, not beholden to the religiosity of the old order, while the force awakens in thousands or millions of “nobodies” across the galaxy.…