Reclining seatback...appropriate or rude?

[sas318]

Rude because I would hate it if someone did that to me. I'm only 5'2" so it's not the height problem, but it feels like such an invasion of my space and I feel claustrophobic enough being confined to a seat for hours, so for someone to recline their seat is annoying, so I don't do that to other people. I just live with sitting upright.

[SAAN]

So the main problem here seems to be the greedy airlines themsleves. If you sell a product that, and people actually attempt to use it and it will cause controversy or near fights, you need to re examine your product.

When seat pitch in coach was 33-34" standard, there wasnt all this fuss about reclining seats, it was still tight, but not hell on earth to the person behind you. With the current 30-31" seats, it is sheer torture in coach and Spirit & Frontier is 28", but dont recline. The general public puts up with this, so the airlines do it.

If professional sport arenas decided in an effort to make more money they will replace all seats and introduce high school style bleacher seats to get an extra 5-10,000 people into a stadium and raise the price as well, people would be raising hell and probably wouldnt go to games, but when it comes to airlines, we just put up with it since no one is up for a 3000 miles coast to coast drive.

I guarantee the big execs who make these decisions, to shrink seats and put in these uncomfortable slimline seats along with raising prices since all the mergers, are not flying in coach.

[notnamed]

The slimline Recaro seats in Alaska Airlines' 737-800s are one of the few that I will actually fit in reasonably well. Tall but not particularly wide.