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Thanks for the comment. If you flew iberia, at least they gave you REAL silverware as a consolation. So instead of frustrating you with the annoyance of trying to cut meat with a cheap plastic knife, they provided you with the typical seat grabber.

I guess we can’t have it all, in coach anyways…

Jason

The way I see it is that if I can get my well over 6 foot tall self out of the seat without yanking on (or even touching) it should be feasible for most people.

Also, I’ve noticed that the legroom coefficient in coach seems to vary depending on the typical route of that plane. I recently flew to Europe with what I felt was an appropriate amount of legroom for coach, only to make a connection and end up switching planes and with my knees literally jammed into the seat in front of me. Regardless, I still managed to get up without parking my hands in the red zone…which we all know isn’t for immediate loading or unloading of passengers only (sorry…bad joke from the movie Airplane)

Jason

I think economy seating was made with short people or short legged people in mind. I’m fairly tall (5′ 11) and I have long legs and if someone leans their seat back more than a little their seat presses up against my knees. If they really recline I’ve got squished knees and forget about crossing my legs even if the seat ahead of me is straight. I can only imagine what people who are taller than me go through in economy seating!

Actually, maybe one reason that people grab the seat ahead of them is because it’s so hard to unfold a body that’s more than 5′ 5″ from those jam packed seats?
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That’s what we’re here for. As for the kids, I try to look past them and bitch about the adults, who should know better. (and knock on wood, I haven’t had an in-flight kid problem for a while)

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I know what you mean, even with short hair, I once had someone grab so much headrest that they got some of my hair with it too…it just adds insult to injury.

As for leaning seats back during meal time, I think it would depend on whether the seat was already leaned back prior to the meal (acceptable) vs leaned back specifically as the meal was served (unacceptable).

I also have a huge thing about people leaning their seats back during meal time. Rude.

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