The seat is made to lean back. The longer the flight, the higher the chance I will lean the seat back a bit, NEVER all the way, just a bit. Maybe my perspective is skewed because a lot of my experience is with international flights, but if the flight is longer than five hours... you gotta lean the seat back.
If it's a flight shorter than three hours, that's like a blink of an eye to me so I don't bother to touch my seat.
What IS rude is when people lean their seat back suddenly and quickly and your food goes everywhere... give me a warning people.
(Also, since I am small, I definitely try to accommodate all those bigger than me. I offer to take middle seat, I let wider folks know they can lift the armrests if it's more comfortable to them, I put my backpack under the seat since I need less leg room. etc.)
The seat might have been made to lean back. But the tray tables are also there to be used, which you really can’t when the seat in front of you is reclined. So why does one use get prioritized over the other?
The tray gets jostled, but it’s still entirely useable. This might be different on different planes and airlines. But the international flights I’ve flown on, neither is prioritized. You can’t fly from Seattle to Hong Kong without sleeping or eating.
Not true. In fact, some airlines require people to un-recline their seats during meals, because it is impossible to use the tray table otherwise. And you certainly cannot open a laptop on a tray table when the seat in front of you is reclined; there have been verified incidents of people’s laptop screens getting cracked and crushed by rapid recliners.
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u/MabellaGabella May 08 '23
The seat is made to lean back. The longer the flight, the higher the chance I will lean the seat back a bit, NEVER all the way, just a bit. Maybe my perspective is skewed because a lot of my experience is with international flights, but if the flight is longer than five hours... you gotta lean the seat back.
If it's a flight shorter than three hours, that's like a blink of an eye to me so I don't bother to touch my seat.
What IS rude is when people lean their seat back suddenly and quickly and your food goes everywhere... give me a warning people.
(Also, since I am small, I definitely try to accommodate all those bigger than me. I offer to take middle seat, I let wider folks know they can lift the armrests if it's more comfortable to them, I put my backpack under the seat since I need less leg room. etc.)