To recline or not to recline? Airplane “legroom wars” are prompting growing rage in the United States, with two recent seat battles sparking a heated debate about the knee-bumping practice.
Amid the furor, one thing everyone seems to agree on is that space on passenger planes is getting scarcer and scarcer.
The question of reclining etiquette “has been a topic of discussion for many years,” said Sarah Schlichter, editor in chief of IndependentTraveler.com.
“But the current uproar seems to be a sign that people are simply not happy fliers anymore.”
Within just a few days, two aircraft were re-routed because of passengers fighting over a seat recline.
On a United Airlines flight between Newark, New Jersey and Denver, Colorado — which was detoured to Chicago — one passenger even used a “Knee Defender” to hold his position.
The $22 gadget consists of two clips that attach to tray table arms to block the seat in front of them from leaning back.
Sales of the gadget “in the past two and a half years have been increasing on a continuous angle,” its inventor, Ira Goldman, told AFP, without giving precise figures.
“People are travelling more, on more crowded planes, the space is smaller and the airlines still provides seats that recline,” added the six-foot-three (1.92-meter) entrepreneur who says he flies 100,000 miles (150,000 kilometers) a year.
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