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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just don't understand the issue.  A seat in coach reclines, what, about 2 inches at the top?  How in the world does that matter?  I'm a 5'11" female, and my husband is a 6'4" male.  I have breastfed lap babies on the plane, I watch movies on the plane, I get up and go to the bathroom on the plane, I eat snacks and meals on the plane, and it doesn't matter whether the person in front of me is reclined or not.  My husband is more cramped than I, but he still has room enough to maneuver, and the loss of 2 inches toward the top of seat makes no difference to him and his laptop.

There just seems to be a lot of exaggeration going on about the effects of reclining one's seat.

Isn't it way more problematic and crowded when you have to sit next to an obese person?[/quote]

"Starting Saturday, April 13, Delta will retrofit its fleet of 62 Airbus A320 jets to reduce the recline of the coach seats from 4 inches to 2 inches and the recline of first class seats from 5.5 inches to 3.5 inches." from https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/delta-air-lines-seat-recline-change/index.html

So there you have it. The seats usually recline 5.5 inches by design. More if they're old or damaged, I guess.

That's actually quite a bit of space when space is already so tight to start with.[/quote]

Ah sorry, that's 5.5 inches in first, or 4 inches in coach.

"Passengers are packed so tightly into planes these days that any invasion of our personal space is amplified, and seat recline is one of those trigger points that easily leads to disputes between passengers," he told CNN Travel.
"One is just trying to relax and give themselves a bit of extra room while the person behind them is suddenly struggling with the feeling of the world closing in on them."

The last sentence is the problem. Instead of saying "... trying to give themselves a bit of extra room" it should say ".... trying to take a bit of space from the person behind them" because that's exactly what it is, by definition. The space doesn't come from nowhere - it's taken away from the person behind you.[/quote]

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