Angry pax declines to Raise Reclined Seat During Service...

[Quickstatus]

Would airlines consider installing a section of Y non reclining seats?

 

[Moody]

On the topic of reclining, recently flew SIN-Europe outbound on QF A380, return on SQ A350, both in economy.

On the QF A380 flight, the passenger in front of me reclined for the entire flight from basically 5 mins after take off to pre-landing, except when instructed to put seat upright for meals (and I might add wedged their knees up into the back fo the seat in front of them, not sure if this prevented the passenger in front of them from reclining, or whether that pax didn't want to recline, but if they did, a pox on the person in front of me). There is no way I could travel on this flight without also reclining myself (IFE too close, and difficult to get in/out of) and the recline mechanism on the seat was awful, once you pressed the button you went all the way back, quickly. On the return SQ flight, recline more limited and I sat half of the flight watching IFE with my seat upright, even though pax in front had fully reclined. And when any one reclined, seats came back much more slowly. Much better for non-recliners.

Sounds like you scored a Chronic Reclining Aircraft Passenger - probably someone on this forum! There’s no cure and all you can do is hope they get taken out of the gene pool by a truck driver dazzled by their fog lights.

 

[Flashback]

Would airlines consider installing a section of Y non reclining seats?

BA have considered, and implemented!

 

[Hvr]

Would airlines consider installing a section of Y non reclining seats?

And what if someone wants to raise the window shade during the flight?

 

[Flashback]

And what if someone wants to raise the window shade during the flight?

787s with no recline, FAs can control the shades

 

[Quickstatus]

And what if someone wants to raise the window shade during the flight?

Window shades should always be up

 

[dajop]

Sounds like you scored a Chronic Reclining Aircraft Passenger - probably someone on this forum! There’s no cure and all you can do is hope they get taken out of the gene pool by a truck driver dazzled by their fog lights.

Haha yes.

But had them on both flights - but on the second it didn’t bother me. A good example of more limited recline on flight #2 and good argument for limiting recline. If people want more recline they can pay for Y+ or J!!

 

[Moody]

Window shades should always be up

Yep - seat fully reclined, shades up, feet on bulkhead ... the Archetypal Onanistic Flyer.

 

[Quickstatus]

Yep - seat fully reclined, shades up, feet on bulkhead ... the Archetypal Onanistic Flyer.

You forgot a few other characteristics....

 

[Melburnian1]

In relation to your last paragraph, I am not sure what you expect CX to do here apart from a template response? The not good enough comment is a tad harsh.

It isn't 'harsh' at all. There's not much room in Y seats on most airlines, so reclining when meals or drinks are being served is a selfish act.

 

[mannej]

It isn't 'harsh' at all. There's not much room in Y seats on most airlines, so reclining when meals or drinks are being served is a selfish act.

I’m not sure the OP’s comment or my response was in relation to the act of the recliner (which isn’t in question), but actually the speed of response from CX.

 

[banana boy]

Man filmed after allegedly punching woman's reclined seat: Who is in the wrong?

Man filmed after allegedly punching woman's reclined seat: Who is in the wrong?

A video posted on Twitter has reignited the debate over whether it's OK to recline your seat on a flight.

www.traveller.com.au

"When the Flight [attendant] came. She rolled her eyes at me and said, "What?" She then told him it was tight back there and gave him rum! She told me I had to delete the video! It's against the law to video on a plane. I asked her name & She gave me a Passenger Disturbance Notice!"

 

[rsellens]

I never ask the person in front of me to raise the back of the seat. I always ask a flight attendant is she would get the passenger to oblige and I have never had a problem doing it this way.

 

[p--and--t]

I never ask the person in front of me to raise the back of the seat. I always ask a flight attendant is she would get the passenger to oblige and I have never had a problem doing it this way.

Works quite a lot of the time. Particularly I have found on QF. Some flight attendants are very proactive during meals/drinks service to arrange before serving without needing to ask.

My worst experience was on LH where the guy in front put his seat on full recline before takeoff and left it there until we touched down. I asked 2 different FA, during meal service and during prep for landing and they both said no, he is sleeping, leave him alone!

 

[lydea]

Man filmed after allegedly punching woman's reclined seat: Who is in the wrong?

Man filmed after allegedly punching woman's reclined seat: Who is in the wrong?

A video posted on Twitter has reignited the debate over whether it's OK to recline your seat on a flight.

www.traveller.com.au

Having investigated airline procedure after a similar experience last year, it seems that when it comes to the crunch, airlines assign the rights of private property to the seat itself, ie a passenger can legitimately use the seat for all the functions its possesses. Airlines HOPE that passengers will be civil and polite to each other, but if a determined passenger persists in reclining the seat outside of meal times and night flying, CX (at least) will do nothing except give the complainer a drink. In my case, alas, the drink didn't choke the man in front of me.

The right to enjoy the space implied by buying a seat doesn't enter the equation, and therein is the rub.

Civility being my standard mode, if faced with an abrupt seat in the face, I make a polite request to raise it, which usually works. In cases when it doesn't , the advice of this Forum is to get up frequently, with attendant risk of severely banging and inadvertantly kicking the seat ahead - or to philosophically accept that there are coughholes in this world, and one is sitting ahead on this flight.

Luckily I don't need to recline my seat in daylight non-meals time, so I've never inconvenienced anyone else. If I had a reason, I guess I'd ask the person behind before just doing it, or perhaps ask the crew if a different seat is available.

 

[Quickstatus]

Not right or wrong. It’s Y. Lower the expectations and you will have a great flight.

 

[Forg]

If the guy had punched the Evil Recliner & chucked her out the airlock, then maybe he'd have been in the wrong. But the scenarios in which the Evil Recliner ain't in the wrong are very very few. FA obviously felt she wasn't empowered to throw the Evil Recliner out the airlock herself, and went with the 2nd-best approach of trying to smooth things over.

 

[UP4014]

Do you think that's all we should expect when contacting/complaining to an airline? A 'template response'?

You might expect more but that's all you'll get.

 

[JohnK]

Not right or wrong. It’s Y. Lower the expectations and you will have a great flight.

There's a really simple solution. Don't allow seats to recline. If that 3-4 inches recline is the difference between a good flight and bad flight then you don't have any other concerns in life.

Another solution is turn off recline for first 4-5 seats and allow the rest limited recline.

Yes I know there are premium cabins but if your flight hasn't been ruined by a serial recliner your opinion does not matter. There are low lifes out there who think it's ok to slam their seat back with the food trays still out there. And no need to apologise either.

Cabin crew can take the cowardly approach too so no help there.

 

[Quickstatus]

I can understand CC not wanting to be involved in low level inter-passengers skirmishes. They are not paid enough to have to deal with all the excrement that the passenger dish out.