Same here. Never on any flight I have ever taken has the person in front of me reclining had any big effect on how much space I had. No one has ever reclined “into my lap” :rolleyes: like people on this board are so fond of exaggerating. The tray tables aren’t affected by the seat reclining, so reclining during a meal makes no difference. I have never heard anyone on a flight tell people they could not recline while meals were being served. That’s a new one.
How tall are you? I’m 6’1 and people reclining absolutely do affect me, me knees are almost touching the seat back before anyone reclines and you absolutely are not supposed to recline during meal service.
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Looks like you have to choose between crushing your knees and having the knife edge of the tray aimed at your belly for the flight.
Um, mostly incorrect, unless you’re on one of the few airlines where the seat reclines by shifting the bottom portion of the seat forward while the back stays in place. These are rare in economy class. Far more likely is the back of the seat reclines, and the tray table reclines with it. Or at the very least the seat is so far back you can’t actually get to your tray of (mostly inedible) food.
There’s a reason they ask you to stow arm rests/tray tables and put seat backs upright on takeoff & landing…
I did, he asked during the meal service, she feigned sleep,or she did not care! Really there was no room for me to contort myself to reach my bag on the floor under the seat and get my emery board, i would have snapped my neck, the guy next to me tried to reach my bag too, even with his face tween my knees he could not reach it!
so i bit off the hangnail and flicked it away, happened to be at the lady in fornt of me.
This is when you grab onto the seat in front of you and started bouncing it up and down, hard.
I’m 6 feet tall, and i have no problem with people reclining their seats in front of me. And this is even the case when i’ve got a drink and a packet of nuts or whatever other crappy snack they serve. But on a long flight during proper meal service that seat-back better be upright.
What I do is start reading the paper and letting it rest on the top of their head. They move.
Well, I have to admit, my experiences with flying are mostly within Alaska Airlines which are (IMHO), reasonably comfortable (as comfortable as a plane seat can be).
Within the industry I work in, it is industry standard, I didn’t say it was THE industry standard across the entire world. Within the DoD, and other three letter gov’t agencies for whom I write site reports, that is the standard. Times New Roman (though there are a few renegades who insist upon [blech] Arial), double space, after a sentence 12 pts after a paragraph 1.0 NOT 1 on the first chapter, etc). It sounds as if you work, or are familiar with computer manual type standards, I’m not surprised that they would make type as unpleasant as possible with squished together words and ugly font.
As to the sugar, other studies (as I put with just two sites) support that there are affects. Something happens with some kids when they eat half a bag of Halloween candy (or too much cake after a church social etc.) if not sugar, then what? What turns a perfectly (okay, relatively) normal kid into Princess Motormouth? So you’ve never seen it, okay fine. I have. As have other moms who were outlined in the links I posted.
requested cite
http://www.jber.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100107-097.pdf
I’m not going to post to my documents due to my wish to remain anonymous, but here is one done quite a bit before I started in that particular area and which I worked on in later documents. Just a guideline, but the full on reports are the same across all agencies within my industry.
om gosh, i almost did that with my seatmates paper. I was able to fall asleep with my forehead leaning against the seat, thought about flipping my hair over her face…
Well, I’m sitting at the gate at San Diego airport right now. I’ll be interested to see what sort of retarded behavior people manage on our short flight to San Francisco.
One thing that really struck me when we were checking in was how few people print out their boarding passes before getting to the airport. Southwest has separate lines for people who need to print boarding passes and those who just need to check bags, and the first line was at least ten times longer than the second. We had printed our passes at home, and it took us about a minute from walking into the airport to handing off our bags.
and I am going to ignore it a few hundred times. I’d rather grab the seat than fall. If I fall, I am going to cause a lot more problems- including grabbing your seat violently.
Don’t fly when contagious. Ignore the fucking TV ads for cold symptom treatments. They are just trying to get you to go into public with your flu so they sell more worthless dangerous snakeoil.
No applying fingernail polish on a plane.
Don’t reek of anything. No heavy perfume, aftershave, deodorant. Smokers, be extra careful.
And yes, double-space is required in several industries. Mind you , I can’t figure out why anyone would get annoyed when it’s used. It’s not like it makes it any harder to read.
Right.
Benadryl is a antihistamine. You need a decongestant, like real Sudafed.
Right again. The airlines manage to screw up my checked baggage about 1/3 of the time on flights that change planes. It’s too much of a risk.
No, it’s not “fine”. Say I go to Chicago for a 2 day business trip, and my luggage is misplaced for 24 hours. Do I just show up for my meeting in my casual travel clothes? Do I go to fuckingTarget to buy a suit? Really?
Most “lost” luggage is merely delayed a day. There’s no recompense, and it can be a huge hassle.
Right. And wear sensible shoes that go on & off quickly, unless you are one of the few that get to keep them on. No super high heels, no flip-flops, no lace to the knee combat boots.
Don’t even clip your fingernails. Well, Ok, if you have a hangnail or broken nail that has to be fixed now, sure, but routine clipping is not a airplane thing.
I use my Delta phone app for all domestic flights so I don’t bother with printing those out.
When we were at Dublin Airport a couple weeks ago, we looked up Ryan Air’s policy which was…interesting:
Yes, agreed. I had to attend a Board Meeting (my first for that organization) in jeans and a shirt I had been wearing for two days. Landed around 11:00 p.m. Meeting the next morning at 8:00 a.m. No time to shop. Bags arrived around noon.
Now that someone mentions it – please, if travelling on business, fly dressed business casual, jacket over your shoulder. Then at least you can throw on a tie if the luggage goes missing. And the airline is likelier to find you a new booking if there is a delay if you look the part.
Well, we don’t have a printer at home. The need to print things is so rare that when we last moved we dumped the printer. Most of the time we’ll print boarding passes at work (assuming I just don’t have it sent to my phone) but never in my life have I had to wait in a significant line to print a boarding pass at a kiosk in an airport.
Also, while printing passes before leaving on a trip is usually easy, getting them printed for return can often be more hassle than its worth when I’ve never had any issue just doing it at the airport.