Posted on 09/12/2014 11:47:15 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
Face it, people: You've made it clear you want a low price more than you want comfort, so this airline has provided it.
Good morning. This is your captain. We'll be cruising today at an altitude of 30,000 feet, and we expect to arrive at our destination on time. Then we'll spend 45 minutes on the tarmac waiting for a gate to open up, because apparently, the airport folks had no idea we were coming.
Our flight crew will be coming through the cabin shortly to offer you a choice of lukewarm beverages along with a tiny chemical-infused snack that wouldn't sustain a gerbil through a cold night. You're welcome to take a nap, if you can sleep through me coming on the intercom to inform you of things you couldn't care less about.
And if there's anything we can do to make your flight more pleasant, please let us know so we can figure out if there's a way to charge you for it.
But I want to make a special announcement today. My last flight got diverted because a couple of knuckleheads started screaming and throwing things at each other. Turns out one of them wanted to recline a seat and the other took offense. I really hate detours. So let me tell you how it's going to be.
You all bought a ticket for a seat that reclines, which means if you want to recline, you're entitled to do it. I'm not saying you should. Just because you're free to spend the entire flight sobbing to your seatmates about your breakup or berating them with your opinion of Barack Obama doesn't mean it's a considerate thing to do. Just because you are allowed to scratch and belch en route doesn't mean your mother would approve.
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> And I consider the space into which my seat reclines to be my space, and not the space of the passenger behind me. and on Long flights, I need it a LOT more than he does anyway.
You are THAT guy, eh? Sounds like a good dose of flatulence might be in order...lol
Airlines have done all they can to make the experience unbearable. I drive if I can, even if it means a couple of days in a car. I just got back from multiple-legged series of flights and I’d almost rather take a beating than go through that. I used to enjoy flying. Its been a while since I could say that.
“My last flight was in 2004”
Same here. If I can’t drive it, I don’t go.
“Why should I travel? I’m already here!” - old saying
I call her the Bi*ch in the box. And yes they are annoying.
You are THAT guy, eh? Sounds like a good dose of flatulence might be in order...lol
In fact, I consider it giving up my space when I am not reclining. And I in no way begrudge the guy in front of me using his space when he reclines. Again, he needs it a lot more than I do. It does not affect me in any way.
So, when a person like me sits behind a person like you, I get a bonus space. And when a person like me sits in front of a person like you, the person in back is miffed, even though what the person in front is doing is completely reasonable, per aircraft design.
I feel the same way about arm rests. I get half of each one and have used it if only to keep someones abdominal fat from getting into my seat.
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I used to enjoy flying. Its been a while since I could say that.
...airline seats are an excellent case study for the Coase Theorem. This is an economic theory holding that it doesn’t matter very much who is initially given a property right; so long as you clearly define it and transaction costs are low, people will trade the right so that it ends up in the hands of whoever values it most. That is, I own the right to recline, and if my reclining bothers you, you can pay me to stop. We could (but don’t) have an alternative system in which the passenger sitting behind me owns the reclining rights. In that circumstance, if I really care about being allowed to recline, I could pay him to let me.Don’t Want Me to Recline My Airline Seat? You Can Pay Me. Josh Barro, New York Times, August 27, 2014.
We had to get up to let people out of their seat —
And they were on the aisle!
I set my voice command on “Japanese”. It is a language I understand and Asian females are a lot more pleasant to deal with than most of them on this side of the Pacific.
That is incorrect. Many seats do NOT recline already. Seats near bulkheads and seats that would block exits often are configured so that they can not recline.
Recalculate Biatch !
How wide is your seat really? How much footsie space do you have in front of you? Does your seat actually recline or must you travel in the brace position all the way to New York? Finally, an airline economy class seat survey with all those niggling details.
Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to flight OU812 on Mile High Airlines.
We will be departing Stapleton International shortly for Greenville Airport, we hope to get clarification shortly after takeoff if that is North or South Carolina. I’d hate to make the same mistake 3 times in one week.
Shortly after takeoff, our flight attendants will be passing out the special snacks you are all waiting for. While the cookies are scrumptious, the brownies are fabulous, and highly illegal in the 42 non-enlightened states.
Of course, free bags of chips and cokes will be served on request.
We estimate flight time to be under 3 hours, but after 2 brownies and a cookie, I doubt anyone will care. Recline your seat if you like, or just pass out on the floor, thats what we do here on the flight deck, love that autopilot.
So sit back, relax and get ready for the trip of a lifetime on Mile High Airlines.
I don’t fly much anymore either, but when I last flew on Southwest a few months ago, the seats barely reclined. They reclined only about 3 inches back at the top - just enough to prevent one’s head from lolling forward when sleeping - but at knee level, a reclined seat intruded only about in inch into the knee space area.
I was okay with that as the reclinee and my knees appreciated not getting hit by the seat in front of me.
Some airline will make a lot of money with this simple idea.
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i think it depends more on how each airline has requested the cabin layout to be for them. some give more space between rows than others, at least from what i’ve heard from the flyers here.
tsa-free since november 2001.
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