Is it rude for me to rest my knees on the airplane seat in front of me?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can you not know you are literally pushing the person in front of you? Those seats are so thin they can feel where your knee caps are too.

Exactly. Every time you move I feel it. Drives me nuts. And yes, I’ve resorted to reclining my seat in protest on occasion.

Same goes for people who grab the headrest with force when exiting the row and snap it back.

The only time I do that is when there's a recliner on a daytime flight. If you're that jerk, prepare to be jostled, a lot.

[Anonymous]

Let me get this straight -- your feet are on your seat when you do this? Eeeeewwwww.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can you not know you are literally pushing the person in front of you? Those seats are so thin they can feel where your knee caps are too.

Exactly. Every time you move I feel it. Drives me nuts. And yes, I’ve resorted to reclining my seat in protest on occasion.

Same goes for people who grab the headrest with force when exiting the row and snap it back.

The only time I do that is when there's a recliner on a daytime flight. If you're that jerk, prepare to be jostled, a lot.

+1 I definitely find a reason to grab the headrest when someone is reclined for an entire daytime flight.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

+1 I definitely find a reason to grab the headrest when someone is reclined for an entire daytime flight.

If you want to not deal with reclining seats, then you get on a budget airline, like frontier, ect, that doesn't allow the seats to recline. If the seats recline, then you have to expect that the person in front may recline their seat the whopping . this doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

if you don't want to deal with a reclining seat, then you need to spend extra on a seat like in the exit row that has more space for you, or splurge for first class.

and if you grab my head rest to help you get up out he seats, thats OK... Its tight...

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/jetiquette-reclining-airplane-seat/

The bottom line

Save for takeoff and landing, when the seat absolutely must be secured in the upright position, your seat is yours to recline as you please — but do so with courtesy and care for the equally hapless traveler behind you.

[Anonymous]

Am I the only one who cannot picture what OP is talking about? How do you "rest your knees" on the seat in front of you?

[Anonymous]

Very rude! And I will in turn tell you to stop it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can you not know you are literally pushing the person in front of you? Those seats are so thin they can feel where your knee caps are too.

Exactly. Every time you move I feel it. Drives me nuts. And yes, I’ve resorted to reclining my seat in protest on occasion.

Same goes for people who grab the headrest with force when exiting the row and snap it back.

The only time I do that is when there's a recliner on a daytime flight. If you're that jerk, prepare to be jostled, a lot.

Yet I am not that jerk and it still happens ALL the time (I travel most weeks).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who cannot picture what OP is talking about? How do you "rest your knees" on the seat in front of you?

Honestly that's a good question. Maybe it's their feet? All I know is that on the newer planes, which I think have thinner backs to save space, it feels like a broken massage chair where only 2 of the kneaders work and they press at random intervals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Am I the only one who cannot picture what OP is talking about? How do you "rest your knees" on the seat in front of you?

I have been confused as well.

[Anonymous]

Someone on a flight recently dug their toes into my seat and I reached back with my fingers to see what was jabbing into my back and it turned out there was a separation in the seat cushions between the bottom and the back so it was her actual toes digging into me.

We were both pretty surprised when I was poking at her toes and she moved her feet elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1 I definitely find a reason to grab the headrest when someone is reclined for an entire daytime flight.

If you want to not deal with reclining seats, then you get on a budget airline, like frontier, ect, that doesn't allow the seats to recline. If the seats recline, then you have to expect that the person in front may recline their seat the whopping . this doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

if you don't want to deal with a reclining seat, then you need to spend extra on a seat like in the exit row that has more space for you, or splurge for first class.

and if you grab my head rest to help you get up out he seats, thats OK... Its tight...

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/jetiquette-reclining-airplane-seat/

The bottom line

Save for takeoff and landing, when the seat absolutely must be secured in the upright position, your seat is yours to recline as you please — but do so with courtesy and care for the equally hapless traveler behind you.

Just as there is no rule against reclining, there is no rule against grabbing the headrest to get out of a seat, especially when the space available to get out is made exceptionally tight by . . . the reclined seat. Just as you have the "right" to recline the seat, I have the right to grab the headrest, and also the right to not care if I jostle the reclined seat.

Lots of things are "allowed" but still constitute asshole behavior. Reclining on a daytime flight is one of them. So is, I suppose, repeated jostling, but at least that's retaliatory.

[Anonymous]

No, it's not. If they can recline, you can prop knees as long as you aren't pushing their seat back forward.

[Anonymous]

How are you guys feeling knees through the plastic of the tray table?

Maybe I’m picturing this incorrectly. I wouldn’t do it bc flying sucks enough as it is

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

+1 I definitely find a reason to grab the headrest when someone is reclined for an entire daytime flight.

If you want to not deal with reclining seats, then you get on a budget airline, like frontier, ect, that doesn't allow the seats to recline. If the seats recline, then you have to expect that the person in front may recline their seat the whopping . this doesn't give you the right to be an asshole.

if you don't want to deal with a reclining seat, then you need to spend extra on a seat like in the exit row that has more space for you, or splurge for first class.

and if you grab my head rest to help you get up out he seats, thats OK... Its tight...

https://thepointsguy.com/guide/jetiquette-reclining-airplane-seat/

The bottom line

Save for takeoff and landing, when the seat absolutely must be secured in the upright position, your seat is yours to recline as you please — but do so with courtesy and care for the equally hapless traveler behind you.

Just as there is no rule against reclining, there is no rule against grabbing the headrest to get out of a seat, especially when the space available to get out is made exceptionally tight by . . . the reclined seat. Just as you have the "right" to recline the seat, I have the right to grab the headrest, and also the right to not care if I jostle the reclined seat.

Lots of things are "allowed" but still constitute asshole behavior. Reclining on a daytime flight is one of them. So is, I suppose, repeated jostling, but at least that's retaliatory.

You’re being ridiculous. Like it or not most airlines specifically include reclining seats as a design feature and instruct you when you can and cannot do so. So, it’s not just that there’s no rule against it but in fact they are implicitly endorsing it as an option (and sometimes charging more for the privilege). It’s not as if they provide handles/grips on the headrest to facilitate grabbing onto them. As a pp suggested if reclining bothers you so much then find a budget airline with non reclining seats or pay extra for a seat in the first row or in an exit row where the seats in front don’t recline.