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

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/

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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 — [b]but do so with courtesy and care for the equally hapless traveler behind you[/b].[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]

Nope.  I will continue to do just this.  Because as a PP said, you do what you need to do (recline), and I will do what I need to do (get myself out of a tight space).  [/quote]

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