How To Keep People From Putting Their Seats Back In An Airplane

It cracked me up when the person infront of me glared at in my direction after they could not put their seat back. The reason was that my height meant my knee’s were right up against the back of their seat, where was the back supposed to go.

Any discomfort they were experiencing because they could not put their seat back was nothing compared to mine in that particular flight.

I’m not sure whether this would work if the two people in front of you synchronize their efforts. Too short to have any issues with people putting their seats back… the worst thing on a transatlantic flight is winding up in the middle seat between 2 fat people.

I have a feeling you might get questioned if authorities caught you with one of those plastic ties – definitely if they found a few on you – because they can be used as handcuffs and therefore could make you look like a terrorist!

I recently had one of those flights where my knees were jammed against the seat in front – I couldn’t even fold down my table fully (due to my beer, er, wine gut). Fortunately the person in front didn’t want to recline his seat, which would have made the flight even more intolerable.

I mentioned this to my travel agent the other day when booking a flight to Brussels next week. “Easy answer,” she said. “Call me 2 days before and I’ll get you your boarding cards for seats in the first row.”

8,

at 6’2″, it’s not my gut, but my knees.

I understand there isn’t much you can do about height. I am only 6′ 1″ and yes, airplane seats suck, but I just stick my feat under the guy in front of me where they are supposed to go and generally don’t have any problems. Are we supposed to believe these people who are complaining don’t recline their own seats?
They just complain about the person in front of them and sit up on a long flight?

#11: I’m 6’3″ and fly one or more times per month for work. The setups on planes vary from Southwest where I’m comfortable in any seat to one US Airways flight where I luckily was in an aisle seat because I had to swing my legs out into the aisle. My knees were jammed into the seat back with the seat ahead not reclined. Often, the seat height and my leg length are such that I can’t get my legs under the seat in front.

Depending on the seats, I might recline slightly, but since the seats are contoured for people under 6′, it’s often more uncomfortable reclined. United is the one airline that has headrests that extend up for taller people. On other airlines, it isn’t unusual for my shoulders to be where a person’s head is supposed to be. Very uncomfortable.

Travel hell on all fronts is one of the reasons I hope to move to a different job at my company and stop traveling.

Let’s see now, interference with the function of part of an aircraft in flight. Sounds like a 5 year stint in federal prison to me and that’s what it should be.

Too f$cking bad if you don’t want someone putting their seat back. It’s called flying and they paid for their ticket same as you.

There would be no problem if the airlines would stop treating us like cattle and cramming as main seats in as they can. The 25% loss in passengers isn’t completely due to airfares. I can afford the tickets but won’t travel with the stupid security garbage and the terrible treatment the airlines provide.

I find this procedure to limit others as borderline antisocial. If it is not that, then it is passive-aggressive and a hallmark of a true asshole.

If you are a tall or a fat person, and find the seats in coach too small for your comfort, then pay more for business or 1st class.

If you can not afford that, and if the person in front of you happens to recline, and it affects you adversely, why not introduce yourself and explain that you need more space? Gee whiz, what is wrong with talking to another person?

On my last flight, I reclined my seat. Within ten seconds, the man behind me starting kicking my seat like a child. After about thirty seconds of this, I got up and stood next to him, and introduced myself. I politely asked to stop kicking the seat. He then said he needed more room. I said why didn’t you just ask instead of kicking my seat like an unruly child? This brought lots of stares from the other passengers and he was very embarrassed. I am a short woman, and did not need the room, so I offered to move the seat upright.

He thanked me, and offered to buy me a glass of wine as an apology.

Talk to others folks. Sometimes it works better than being antisocial.

#21 – have you ever asked how much that 1st-class ticket costs? They do indeed pay 2.25 times the fare. Usually much more.

I did inquire once on an overseas flight. When I booked the ticket I could either pay $800 (return) for steerage, or $3,500 for 1st-class.

But 1st-class passengers are either rich enough that they don’t care about the price, or they’re upper-management or executives on business. Or, they’re government officials or politicians, who don’t care because the public pays,.

Whatever happened to being polite and just asking? Have we become so afraid of human contact that we must resort to sabotage.

Everyone knows that it is the airlines that are to blame. They cram the seats in together to the minimum specified by the FAA. As for anyone who would actually do what is suggested in the video I have two statements.
1. There are very few items on the airplane itself that can cut that strap when it is in flight. The terminal maintenance crew at the next destination will not enjoy having to come aboard to cut that strap put in place by some a-hole.
2. Stay tuned to see the next video installment by fi5e titled “How I Deserved the Beatdown I Got At 30,000 Feet By Some Motherfu#% For Doing This Because I’m A Fu*&in Puss”. I am sure that this new video will be posted before his arraignment in federal court and then used by the FAA in part of their new “How Not To Instigate Air Rage” program.

You want to keep people from sitting on a chair? Grab a permanent marker pen and draw a huge penis on the seat. No one will sit on that chait at all.

Yes, heaven forbid someone should be allowed to recline their seats the massive 2″ alloted by the airlines.

That said, I do always check to make sure some schlub hasn’t wedged his laptop screen into the seat back. I don’t want to be responsible for cracking someone’s laptop! (Unless they try to pull this lame ass twist tie stunt… then they deserve it).

I wish the seats were designed to slide forward as they recline so the person who loses leg room is the one reclining. That would solve the problem altogether. I detest the attitude of those who say, “I paid for the seat so I am going to inconvenience you and recline” Sometimes I just put on my headphones, wedge my knee against the seatback and tap my foot to the beat. I’m white so this is often poorly timed thus even more annoying. Once the seat goes back up I stop.

Once a guy in front of me reclined his seat as we waited on the apron for takeoff. The attendant came ’round and asked him politely to raise the seat for takeoff. Soon as we turned onto the active runway he dropped his seat back all the way… I mean ALL the way. Immediately I extended my arm. His button was still pushed so I was able to move the seat forward.. I slammed it so hard I’m pretty sure his head hit the seat in front of him.

Fucker thought he’d lower his seat once he knew the attendants were buckled in for the roll.

I regret not apologizing… to the guy two seats in front.

#31 the damned chair reclines. Is not that people are “making” the chair to recline. The fact that you feel it’s personal makes you sound like such a spoiled brat

Hey everybody #8 is the guy in front always reclining his seat.

Apparently we are all suppose to do synchronised seat reclining, so he is happy.