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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 26, 2014 12:15:32 GMT -6
Just heard on CNBC a survey about this issue, following up on a story of an altercation. Experienced business travelers know the drill -- seats are to be reclined only when nobody is seated behind you, or when you are in business class or first class. If you are in coach or even economy plus where the table is on the seat back, absolutely not.
Apparently some amateur travelers don't get it? Loved the woman who said,"then why does the seat recline. If it is allowed, then we can do it". Amazing. Farting is legal too. You gonna do that on a plane while seated around someone else? Taking your shoes off and putting them up on the seat is legal. You gonna do that? Spilling your beer all over me is allowed. You gonna do that? Changing a baby's diaper on the seat next to me is allowed. You gonna do that?
You can try to teach class, but some people just never are able to acquire it. I expect soon airlines will lock all the economy and coach seats from going back because the clueless don't get it. They can't be polite and considerate to others on their own, so the airlines will have to lock the seats to force the rubes to behave. And we will have another example where a business has to take away something nice because some of their customers didn't understand the right from wrong times to use it. With the airlines cramming another row or two into the cabin and making leg room less on all new models, and our society getting ruder and coarser, this problem will likely get worse until they do.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Aug 26, 2014 12:23:07 GMT -6
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Post by Danny Busch on Aug 26, 2014 12:25:06 GMT -6
I would recline it if the person in front of me did.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Aug 26, 2014 12:31:35 GMT -6
Reclining seats is only done by savages.
If people still wore suits to fly there wouldn't be this fucking reclining.
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Post by November KS on Aug 26, 2014 12:42:35 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good.
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Post by Hawg Ass on Aug 26, 2014 12:48:36 GMT -6
 I don't recline my seat and don't really like it when the person in front of me does. I am a portly person, I need all the room I can get.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Aug 26, 2014 12:48:43 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good. Plus you're on the No Fly list. So there's that. |
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Post by Hawg Ass on Aug 26, 2014 12:52:00 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good. Plus you're on the No Fly list. So there's that. I am surprised they let him out of Racine, I was a little scared this morning. |
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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 26, 2014 12:52:09 GMT -6
You fear flying? You do realize your odds of dying during your life in a plane crash are 1 in 8,357, and your odds of dying in a car or truck are 1 in 492? So you are 17 times more likely to die in a car than a plane. So I assume you don't ride in a car. Or walk,because your odds of dying as a pedestrian are 11 times higher than planes. And you surely don't use bikes or motorcycles because those are 2x and 9x more likely to kill you than planes. So I guess you don't go anywhere, eh? I hope you live in a padded room in a one story house, because dying from falling down is 55 times more likely than a plane crash.
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Post by November KS on Aug 26, 2014 12:52:46 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good. Plus you're on the No Fly list. So there's that.  |
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Post by Danny Busch on Aug 26, 2014 12:56:01 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good. I would probably require half a bottle of calvert to step foot on another plane. |
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Post by Hawg Ass on Aug 26, 2014 12:57:23 GMT -6
You fear flying? You do realize your odds of dying during your life in a plane crash are 1 in 8,357, and your odds of dying in a car or truck are 1 in 492? So you are 17 times more likely to die in a car than a plane. So I assume you don't ride in a car. Or walk,because your odds of dying as a pedestrian are 11 times higher than planes. And you surely don't use bikes or motorcycles because those are 2x and 9x more likely to kill you than planes. So I guess you don't go anywhere, eh? I hope you live in a padded room in a one story house, because dying from falling down is 55 times more likely than a plane crash. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Coast, if you read much of his post you would swear he lives in a zoo. |
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Post by PositivelyJackref on Aug 26, 2014 12:59:58 GMT -6
Reclining is a dick move. Doubly so if the flight is less than 2 hours. If someone asks politely first "Do you mind if I recline?" and I can clear off my tray table I am ok with it because at least they had some common courtesy.
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Post by PositivelyJackref on Aug 26, 2014 13:00:43 GMT -6
I have a fear of flying so I'm good. I would probably require half a bottle of calvert to step foot on another plane. Why? Bad experience? |
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Post by November KS on Aug 26, 2014 13:00:50 GMT -6
You fear flying? You do realize your odds of dying during your life in a plane crash are 1 in 8,357, and your odds of dying in a car or truck are 1 in 492? So you are 17 times more likely to die in a car than a plane. So I assume you don't ride in a car. Or walk,because your odds of dying as a pedestrian are 11 times higher than planes. And you surely don't use bikes or motorcycles because those are 2x and 9x more likely to kill you than planes. So I guess you don't go anywhere, eh? I hope you live in a padded room in a one story house, because dying from falling down is 55 times more likely than a plane crash. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I'm aware of the odds and don't care. In fact, you'll see how bad I am with odds with my Beat The Book picks. |
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Post by Hawg Ass on Aug 26, 2014 13:05:40 GMT -6
You fear flying? You do realize your odds of dying during your life in a plane crash are 1 in 8,357, and your odds of dying in a car or truck are 1 in 492? So you are 17 times more likely to die in a car than a plane. So I assume you don't ride in a car. Or walk,because your odds of dying as a pedestrian are 11 times higher than planes. And you surely don't use bikes or motorcycles because those are 2x and 9x more likely to kill you than planes. So I guess you don't go anywhere, eh? I hope you live in a padded room in a one story house, because dying from falling down is 55 times more likely than a plane crash. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk I'm aware of the odds and don't care. In fact, you'll see how bad I am with odds with my Beat The Book picks. |
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Post by Danny Busch on Aug 26, 2014 13:06:48 GMT -6
I would probably require half a bottle of calvert to step foot on another plane. Why? Bad experience? I don't like the zero control and zero chance of survival aspect. I hate the thought of flying more than the actual experience. |
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Post by PositivelyJackref on Aug 26, 2014 13:13:51 GMT -6
Interesting. I find an experienced pilot to be better at keeping me alive during travel than someone texting and putting makeup on while trying to drive at 50 mph every morning. Although landings still scare me I admit  |
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Post by Hawg Ass on Aug 26, 2014 13:17:43 GMT -6
Landings have never bothered me, the whole getting that big ass thing off of the ground kind of does. But I don't mind flying at all. Maybe it is because I have done it so much.
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Post by November KS on Aug 27, 2014 21:03:25 GMT -6
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Aug 27, 2014 21:08:48 GMT -6
I knew his name wasn't really Rick.
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Post by PositivelyJackref on Aug 28, 2014 7:14:56 GMT -6
What a pompous self-righteous piece of shit with a serious case of small mans complex.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Aug 28, 2014 9:13:20 GMT -6
The dude might be on to something in terms of economic approaches, but he has it backwards. Charge the 10% of people who want the convenience of a reclining seat another $100 or so and give an $80 discount to people willing to sit behind one. Make 80 or 90 percent of the seats unable to recline. Problem solved and revenue to airline.
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Post by Coast2Coast on Sept 12, 2014 9:03:40 GMT -6
I'm on a plane right now -- 4 hour flight to the west coast -- and I just walked from the front of the plane to the back and did a count of how many people are reclining. Exactly 3 people in coach on a flight of about 200. So about 1.5%..or about the same number of people who eat their boogers. Maybe it's the same people. Their couth is about the same anyway.
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Post by Hawg Ass on Sept 12, 2014 9:09:05 GMT -6
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Post by Coast2Coast on Sept 12, 2014 9:20:10 GMT -6
A couple of people who are reclining look like hill jacks. Maybe when people identify themselves as uncultured by admitting they recline on airplanes, maybe we could learn more about them by asking them some other questions. Do you eat your boogers? Do you take a shower and wear fresh underwear every day? What is your favorite road kill to barbeque?
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Post by Hawg Ass on Sept 12, 2014 9:31:47 GMT -6
Hey, easy on my kinfolk Coast, we can't help it.
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Post by Positivity Peeps on Sept 12, 2014 9:34:08 GMT -6
Coast, do you believe that sports coats should be required dress when flying?
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Post by PositivelyJackref on Sept 12, 2014 9:38:32 GMT -6
 Coast lighting them up!
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Post by Hawg Ass on Sept 12, 2014 9:40:20 GMT -6
Crest, do you believe that sports coats should be required dress when flying?  |
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