proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Liberty Tree

Seats are made to recline, but not to be punched.

proud republican Loc: RED CALIFORNIA

Exactly!!! I would be really pissed off if I were that lady!!!

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I don't see any punches. He is wobbling the seatback. What happened prior to this? We don't know. Did she slam the seat back hard or gently? Did he ask her to please set her seatback partially upright a little bit because he had less room? Or was he snippy? If he did ask politely, did she ignore him? People don't know how to work out the conflict with others anymore because everyone is engrossed in their digital apparatus. They don't speak to each other and things can escalate quickly. I don't know anyone who is a mind-reader. He probably just started shaking the back of her seat without saying anything. Weren't there any other open seats on the plane that either one of them could have moved too? It looks like they were in mid-flight so I don't see what the problem was. Maybe he had Tourette's syndrome or was ADHD. I've had i***ts sit down in front of me and immediately recline their seats while people are still trying to board and find their seats, get situated, or still putting items in the overhead. Some can be extremely inconsiderate. One has to return it to the upright position before and during take-off.

Navigator

From what I've read, the gentleman asked the woman not to recline her seat while he was eating and she complied. When the woman noticed the man had finished eating, she reclined her seat. The man shook the woman's seat and when she didn't respond by moving her seat back to the upright position, he continued to shake the seat. After a time, the woman took out her phone and videoed the man shaking her seat. What annoyed me the most was an announcement from Delta Airlines that passengers should request the permission of the passenger sitting behind them before reclining their seat. Really? It is the airlines responsible for these situations as they have, over the last 20 years, reduced the space between seats by almost a foot. The reclining of the seat is a feature touted by the airlines and oftentimes charged
extra for. The airlines then have the stones to tell people their ability of achieve some small degree of comfort is dependent upon the passenger sitting behind them. From my own perspective, a seat reclined into empty space in front of me has far less effect on my comfort than the inability to recline my own seat.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Well, this is just another reason I do not like to fly and avoid doing so at all costs

Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone

My thought, she was inconsiderate. Surely, a compromise could be negotiated. If you are tall, which he appeared to be, there is insufficient space to even sit down on a packed plane. Additionally, the man was in the very last row, he had to sit bolt upright with his knees in the table. With the woman reclining, that space then was reduced by a third. Making for a miserable trip. She thought she had a "right" to all the space she could commandeer, he thought he had a "right" to enough space to sit. The airline is to fault, not the rats packed into the smallest space possible.

jack sequim wa Loc: Blanchard, Idaho

Have you sat in those seats? It's a joke...they only recline at best one and ahalf inches to maybe 2and a half inches.
But still its good to ask "Why" questions.
My reply is, lets assume she was rude, slamned the seat back.
Nothing justifies his "ungentlemanly" actions.

Other questions. Did her husband just leave her for another. Her parents just passed away by a hit and run?
The guy was being a jerk against her, period!

Jack

Kevyn

The people who are responsible are the airlines who install tiny seats and put them too close together.

Lonewolf

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

The airline is at fault.

meridianlesilie Loc: mars

reclining lady he was rude i bet he would h**e it if he had a fused back !!!

Tug484

The last plane I rode on was that airline and the space is so small, I would have h**ed for the person in front of me to recline their seat.
The aisle wasn't any more than 12 inches wide.

EN Submarine Qualified Loc: Wisconsin East coast

Even with minimizing space for people to sit and with larger planes they can manage to oversell seats on the flight. More bucks!!

Tug484

Yes. I used to fly on nearly empty planes and now you're packed in like sardines.