We should get rid of the reclining button on airplane seats
Summary
A straphanger brings the heat on airplane seat etiquette, arguing that reclining buttons should be abolished entirely. Kareem agrees. The problem is clear: airlines pretend to give passengers control when really the button just closes your laptop and ruins the person's day behind you. They debate the unwritten rules of flying, from middle seat armrest privileges to whether window seat passengers can keep the shade open (they disagree on that one). Shoes off is fine, but socks are mandatory and feet stay on the floor. No one wants to see a rogue toe. The takeaway? Either give passengers real space or stop the mockery of fake comfort. Reclining isn't neighborly, and on a ten-hour flight, it's worth speaking up.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? We should get rid of the reclining button on airplane seats.
100% agree. That's amazing.
Either give us more room or take the button away. Take the button away and give us more room.
I would love to get more room and then keep the button. You're right. If you could recline and not ruin the other person's life behind you,
literally their entire life. I feel like it needs to go into the etiquette that we all live by for airplanes. Like the person in the middle seat gets the two things.
Yes, the person in the middle seat does get the two things. And the person who has the window, I guess they can kind of do whatever they want. No, the person that has the window should keep it closed.
I think it's their choice. No, the etiquette says you keep it closed.
The etiquette says Yes, the etiquette says. Okay, we're not on the same page. Shoes on or shoes off?
I take my shoes off. Me, too.
I think that's fine, etiquette. As long as you're wearing socks. Oh, yes, you have to wear socks.
You have to wear socks. Feet stay on the floor. Feet stay on the floor. I can't stand someone that goes like this. And then you see a little toe next to you.
I don't want to see a toe. Yeah, I know. That's crazy.
Yeah. I I don't know those recliners. I don't recline on an airplane unless I'm in business class, which happens when someone else pays for it. I was on my computer on a flight. Also, a person puts their seat back. Guess I can't go on my computer anymore.
Dude, I was on an airplane the other day and I was sitting like this. Yeah, you were.
That was before the recline. My screen was already like this and my laptop was like this and I was typing and then he reclined and it just closed my entire laptop. It closes your laptop.
It just closed the laptop and it closes your day. It shuts you down. Treat us like human beings. It's the button is a mockery. It's really like pretending like you have control over your experience. You have the option to have some kind of like luxury or some kind of comfort and you don't.
Would you ever ask someone to just I think I would if it was really ruining my experience. I have to be in a certain mood.
It was like a 10-hour flight. I'd be like, "Dude Cuz it's not neighborly. It's not the right thing to do.
Stop reclining. It's rude.