I’m 6’5”.
Who said I’m not able to buy a larger seat? I don’t want to spend another 1000 bucks to fly.
When I buy my coach ticket, I do it with the expectation that my knees will suffer. Likewise, others need to expect that when they buy their coach seat it is possible that they will not be able to recline their seat because knees are firmly planted in the back of it.
It’s one thing of course if you (or anyone) is too tall to physically allow the seat to recline. In other words, I’m obviously not advocating sitting in a seat, and jamming that seat into some guy’s knees for the whole flight “just because it’s my space”. Your knees are there I’m not going to ram my seat up against them constantly. In fact I sat in front of such a man a couple of years ago: an obviously large individual with no way to put his knees/legs anywhere but right up against the back of my seat. Of course I didn’t try to recline then. Of course!
What I was talking about in my post #50 were the jerks like the woman in the OP article, and any others, who clearly have enough legroom if they just reposition their legs (stretched out more) or hey, don’t use the tray table as a pillow. Or also, any who think that just because a seat touches their knees (not pushing against them in a painful manner but just touching) that’s an “invasion of space”. It’s not. It’s called a crampt seat. Deal with it.
So returning to you it’s obvious it woukdnt be physically possible to recline a seat back when you are sitting in a seat. Fine. Again I’m not talking about people like you. (Although I would say you might want to get a better seat just for your own health but I digress).
I’m talking about the people who can’t stand the seat touching them at all (when it’s reclined) and/or idiots like the woman in the OP, and/or people who can’t stand the fact that the seat “comes back” into “my space” at all. Again (assuming you aren’t 6’5”, 250 lbs or above) if the seat can go back without physically hurting you, then it’s YOU who have to deal with it coming back.
Write to the airlines to get them to change to no reclining if it’s that much of an issue for you. But honestly, is it really that much of an invasion if a seat is a few inches in your “personal space”? You can get that space back anyway if you just recline yourself.