I’m 6’2”. I’ve had 2 knee replacements and when I sit in the seat, even with my butt back, BOTH knees are against the seat in front if me. I’m not getting the room I paid for. It’s not that I won’t let the seat in front of me come back...I cannot! Don’t tell me to upgrade to get legroom, unless YOU are offering to pay the 100+% increase in fare. It isn’t my fault I’m this tall. Why am I the culprit? Just don’t recline..it is called courtesy. I never recline my seat out of courtesy for the person behind me.
Exactly, and it is also courtesy for the person who wants to recline the seat, to ask the person behind if they don’t mind
In your case you should use seat guru and pick airlines and seats that better suit you.
In general southwest has better leg room than !any of the other airlines.
But united has economy plus with more leg room.
I’m 6’2 as well, I pay for better seats or barring that, I always ask for emergency exit seating. There is always leg room there because of the extra space needed to get people out the emergency exit in case of emergency. I’m going to see how many times I can use the word emergency. It’s always worked for me, just don’t show up last second and expect to get that seat, because other tall folks are vying for the same emergency exit seating. Some for the leg room, some because they like to be in the emergency exit seats in case of emergency, so they can be the first out if there was an emergency.
I’m 6’ 5-1/2”, and it is even worse for me. I always pay for more room whenever possible. In a recent thread on this, a Freeper suggested that tall people should be charged double like overweight people.
Most people are courteous, and extend their legs below the seat in front of them (which lowers their knees) so as to not impede the proper reclining of the seat in front of them.
Some people on the other hand expect the world to cater to them and therefore are idiots.