Article: What's Your Seat Recline Strategy?

[AFF Editor]

Seat Recline Strategy: What’s Your Approach? is an article written by the AFF editorial team:

Seat Recline Strategy: What's Your Approach?

Frequent flyers discuss the correct etiquette and different approaches to reclining your seat on a long-haul flight. It's a guaranteed source of conflict if done wrong.

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[luxury-lizard]

I must admit I never fly Y on flights more than 1-2 hours (rarely 3 hours and never international) - so I never recline my seat.

 

[Forg]

My strategy is to wait until the person in front reclines so I can no longer use the IFE or read a book /magazine, sigh, and recline mine to sit there awake for what feels like the next 29-or-so hours.

 

[kpc]

I avoid fying Y on overnight flights. On daytime flights, I "half recline" if flight more than 2 hours unless the person in front of me fully reclines, then I will fully recline to "regain" my space.

 

[RealtimeY]

My most frustrating experience with the person in front was the "Just shoving the seat all the way back" and then walk away (to sit with other family) strategy.

 

[Tiki]

I don't recline on short-ish daytime flights unless the person in front reclines, then I basically have to. On long haul, I try to get the back row so at least I don't have some kid behind me kicking the seat, aggressively punching a video game on the screen or whatever. And most of the time I get an empty middle seat because no one will choose to select a middle seat in the back row.