Article: What's Your Seat Recline Strategy?

[Beano]

There are several airlines with non-reclining seats or with limited recline. Those include Ryanair, Easyjet, Jet 2, Vueling, Condor (Germany) and a couple of USA budget airlines. One has a 5 hour flight. Enjoy reclining while ye may!

 

[MEL_Traveller]

If in whY on domestic (or trans tasman) I never recline, I wish the the recline function could be disabled on these flights under 5 hours. There is IMO simply no need to recline on domestic daytime flights. Similarly on domestic J on 737, I don't recline.

On over night flights, I only recline outside meal services and then only sometimes. I cant sleep sitting up nor reclined, so only reason to decline is to get some space when person in front reclines.

I really wish the FAs could override the recline such that during meal service seats are returned to upright position and locked there until all trays are cleared. It really annoys me when the FA doesnt force reclining passengers to un-recline their seat during meal service.

In J/F on A380/B789/A330 recline away you are not impacting anyone else. On a 737 SYD-MEL you can sit upright for just over an hour you happily sit upright in a car, bus or train for similar duration journeys.

The medical evidence doesn’t support your assertions.

 

[Forg]

The medical evidence doesn’t support your assertions.

Which assertions? The only one I can pick out is the bit about domestic daytime flights, is there some medical evidence saying there's a blood-flow positive of not reclining or some-such even for only a couple of hours?