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(CNN) Delta cuts back how far you can recline your seat
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Seriously, why are so many cheering this on. It's obviously just going to make everyone more uncomfortable.
Thank goodness. Being over 6 feet tall and having someone attempt to crush your knees with their seat is nightmarish.
They specifically said retrofit the existing seats. The footprint is staying the same, so where are these imaginary added seats your complaining of and that the article specifically dispells coming from?
Their story doesn't add up, especially considering they are reducing recline in first class when there is plenty of room to recline without incident. So you'll forgive me if I don't take the massive corporations PR spin at face value.
Let's go to the original story that CNN is quoting.
Trust the PR of an airline company lol. Yeah they would never make customer experiences worse for more profit!
Adding everyone who cheers this on.
They are doing a trial to see if people bitch about it. If no one complains, they will drop pitch.
This has been the MO for decades already.
But sure, trust PR.
LOL
They are doing a trial to see if people bitch about it. If no one complains, they will drop pitch.
This has been the MO for decades already.
But sure, trust PR.
It's a start but there's an even better idea to deal with this.
Stop cramming people into planes like fucking sardines!
Stop cramming people into planes like fucking sardines!
This for real. I find all the corporate cheerleaders in this thread truly bizarre.
I'm cool with less recline but I'm suspicious of their motives, even if they are claiming it's not to stuff more seats in. I mean, if the retrofit happens and no additional seats were added, then I guess good on 'em. I trust Delta as far as I can throw them though.
Airlines have reduced seat pitch on average every single year of their existence as a business. But this time it's for the little (oh wait I mean big) guys....
Well glad I dont fly American anymore. I need to be able to recline. You guys are crazy not reclining on 8+ hour flights.
Joke's on you when seat pitch gets taken down to 28", like Spirit and Frontier.
I keep adding all of them to the post. Quoting for when Delta decides to cut seat pitch due to all the corporate cheerleaders who cheered this on.
They are living examples of "Fuck you, got mine". They aren't arguing for increased pitch, instead they are happy stuff is being taken away from others.
The problem is that AA and United follow suit. This month's casualty has been United's award chart after Delta removed theirs a while back. AA seems to be almost ready to follow suit due to United folding.
Which they will if we keep blaming it on 60 year old first time flyers reclining because they have a recline button. As opposed to some perceived personal grudge. These threads are exhausting. And part of why we're here.
Flight attendants always go seat to seat telling everyone who is reclining to upright their seat during meal service. What airline was this that they failed such a simple task?
Pray tell how many flights and how many airlines and how many countries and how simple was the task of telling hundreds of people this rule that nobody here has yet quoted?
Please stop lying. There is not such rule and they do not do that.
I mean, I fly all the damn time. Whenever people are reclined during meal time they come and ask to raise the seat. I fly mostly in Asia though, but it's happened plenty of times on US carriers for me while flying internationally. I don't think I've gotten food service on a domestic flight in the USA in years.
Of course service is generally a lot better in Asia, not just on flights. American flight attendants usually do the bare minimum.
Edit: and it's not like it's difficult to ask people to raise their seat when they are passing out the meal. Most people are decent human beings from my experience and automatically put up their seat when the food service comes along, so they only have to ask like 5-10 people at most to raise their seatrest. It's not like they are announcing it to hundreds of people.
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The best solution is were if you recline, instead of your seat taking space from the person behind you it takes your own foot space. It will probably be more effort to engineer something like that so airlines probably won't bother.
As a tall dude I am very happy, but I also don't fret about people reclining. In an airplane scenario you gotta do what's best for you, no use getting mad at another passenger when the airline decided to jam us all the fuck in there.
I've taken hundreds of flights (mostly Europe, but recently a lot in the US too), never had that happen.
Take-off and landing, sure, but that's it.
Why are people flying Delta and not jetblue?
The standard leg room in jetblue is greater than the premium economy leg room in Delta.
I physically an to tall to fly standard Delta. I walked off the last Delta flight someone booked me on.
The standard leg room in jetblue is greater than the premium economy leg room in Delta.
I physically an to tall to fly standard Delta. I walked off the last Delta flight someone booked me on.
Oh, Asian airlines. Fair enough. We thought you were flying Domestic only.
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lol at the dumbasses cheering on corporations for giving them less value for their money, thinking the world should revolve around their physique. Enjoy your inevitable less leg room in a few years while still whining about the front seat jamming all the way up your ass.
Yes, we all know the corporations are the assholes. But be real, no one is going to boycott them, because we absolutely have to fly. So we are fucked.
All we can do is be considerate to each other, which means you shouldn't recline.
All we can do is be considerate to each other, which means you shouldn't recline.
International I fly business.
Too tall for some of the lie flats lol.
We had a seat reclining thread last week.
Whiners need to can it. I'm 6'4", tall, big, long legs, someone reclining in front of me has never bothered me. If I need more room, I'll spend the extra $25 on a more legroom seat. I don't fault someone or mind if someone reclines. I get it if you have a disability or something, but most people don't and if you're disabled then you can get special accomodation (for instance, the first seat, exit row, more legroom, etc)
People won't boycott based on reclining, flying is all about price, perks, and convenient travel times for like 95% of flyers.
Whiners need to can it. I'm 6'4", tall, big, long legs, someone reclining in front of me has never bothered me. If I need more room, I'll spend the extra $25 on a more legroom seat. I don't fault someone or mind if someone reclines. I get it if you have a disability or something, but most people don't and if you're disabled then you can get special accomodation (for instance, the first seat, exit row, more legroom, etc)
People won't boycott based on reclining, flying is all about price, perks, and convenient travel times for like 95% of flyers.
I'd rather they limited reclining. But I'd take slower reclining seats too. The worst is when passenger in front drops that shit on your laptop screen like a drawbridge.
It's another step by a legacy carrier towards non-reclinable seats in economy, like Spirit's.
Yeah, I always fly exit for Delta international. But without a doubt JetBlue is the best for coach legroom.