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Do you smoke? Drink? Own a car when you could take mass transit? Buy clothes from other than thrift shops? There are many things we could all do to cut our budgets. we make choices. You are making one to move overseas. Your choice.
Smoke? No. Drink? No. Own a car? Nope, selling it. I buy my clothes from Salvation Army and buy food at 99 cent store... I'm not making the choice to ride a plane. That was just the cheapest option. I'm moving to another country, but how do you know if that was a choice? What would you say if I told you it was because I was going to take care of my ill Mother?
i always let the person know i will be reclining and give them a reasonable amount of time to move their stuff or legs as the case may be. A few minutes is reasonable, 10 minutes is not. If they are a jerk about it, i simply fling the seat back. Don't be a jerk to me when i'm trying to be nice to you. (not you personally)
"Excuse me, just wanted to forewarn you that me, myself, and I will be reclining! I'm giving you ten minutes to move things. I know, I'm just that nice. Call me Mother Teresa. Oh, you aren't moving your stuff?" *FLING*
Smoke? No. Drink? No. Own a car? Nope, selling it. I buy my clothes from Salvation Army and buy food at 99 cent store... I'm not making the choice to ride a plane. That was just the cheapest option. I'm moving to another country, but how do you know if that was a choice? What would you say if I told you it was because I was going to take care of my ill Mother?
That is a choice. There is no law requiring you to do so. It might not be an easy choice, but it is a choice.
3 hours-yet no one has seen an attendant insist on the right to recline trumping comfort?
I have seen this argument several times on flights, and the attendant has always told the person complaining that the person in front has the right to recline.
I have seen this argument several times on flights, and the attendant has always told the person complaining that the person in front has the right to recline.
Always. UA, US, and AF.
Great. One hand up. I never have. We're tied!
Was that because the person behind wanted to use their laptop? Or because they had inadequate leg room to allow it?
I'm seeing 2A 2C R/T for $6222 including all taxes in Premium Economy on Virgin Atlantic.
Premium Economy isn't business class. The seats are just as narrow as in economy. There is more legroom but I am not especially tall. I am somewhat husky. No, I'm not big enough to need two seats. ORD LHR means flying all night.
I don't recline my seat -- I don't find it comfortable as I have a tendency to sit bolt upright on a plane. I have a short torso, I sit bolt upright everywhere. However I've been in planes where people recline on me -- and I'm short so it doesn't bother me.
However -- if we all just practiced a little common courtesy (which is increasingly in short supply) all this hoo-haw would disappear. Planes aren't comfortable, they are busses in the sky. You making yourself at home on a plane SHOULD NOT make me uncomfortable.
My making myself at home should not make you uncomfortable.
Either one of those things means one has to give a little, and other has to give a little so we are both more or less a little uncomfortable, instead of one person getting everything they want at the expense of the other passenger.
Oh, wait. That will NEVER happen, because we live in a special snowflake society.
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