Here is your chance to fight back!!!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/...in579995.shtml

We've already been through this at length. See the thread titled Knee Defender on the Europe board. I'm too lazy to list the link.

I give it a very short life span.

I wonder how long it will take the surgeon to remove it from the first person that tries to use it?

GoTravel, by surgeon I assume you mean more specifically, Proctologist?

Yes indeed I would be talking proctologist Patrick!

I mean, could you even imagine? I don't recline because I'm tall and I hate people doing it to me. However, that doesn't mean someone can force me not to recline.

It's a pretty major-league dumb invention, I think. I see Northwest has already banned it. Others won't be far behind.

I have seen these "do not recline" posts before but have never participated in the debate. I don't get it. I would like to be enlightened. The seats only recline about 2 inches. Is that really enought to make someone unconfortable behind? I have had the person in front, many times, recline and have never felt it a problem. I am not a tall person, does this make a differance?

Yes it makes a huge difference! If you are tall & the person in front of you reclines he/she is sitting on your knees!

I mainly fly American so I'm used to a little more room, but I am fairly tall -- 6 feet. When the person in front reclines his seat it bends from the point just above my knees. I don't lose any knee room at all. I only find that the tray table is closer to me -- not really a big deal. Are the seats in other airlines different from those on American?

On American (my choice too), I don't have any troubles. Other airlines, with reduced pitch, I get my knees crunched. The seats are just closer together so I guess it makes sense. I wouldn't use one of these things and don't need to as long as I stay away from airlines that are squeezing people in.

It's not the tall person's fault for not wanting to ride in pain, and not the recliner's fault for wanting to use the seat as it's intended. It's the airline's fault for pushing the seats closer together than they were designed to be. So, I try to be supportive of companies that offer the alternative.

The worst is having the person in front of you fully recline when you can't recline your own seat. Happened to me on a flight from Paris last night. It was very claustrophobic. I couldn't even watch the movie because the screen, which was on the seatback in front of me, was a couple inches from my chest.

I agree that this dilema is entirely the fault of the airline.

As a short person, airline seats in the upright position are extremely uncomfortable. The widest part of the head rest is right where the widest part of my head is - so an upright seat forces me to sit with my head angled forward, which is damned uncomfortable. If I can recline my seat an inch or 2, this alliviates the problem.