Originally Posted by
VPsych
I'd say recline being offered is more a result of the carriers not carefully considering its effects on personal space when they decided to add another row in. Designers/Engineers likely thought they could reduce room, add in some visual design tricks to trick our eyeballs, and profit. Removing the recline functionality during this change would have been more obvious to the pax.
It'd be interesting if there was any data on the number of pax conflicts over the years. I imagine it's only going to increase from here.
That's a sure bet and a no brainer.
These things almost never happened on mainline in the 60s,70s and 80s when passengers had more space on aircraft.....
As has been pointed out in various forums..overcrowding,in any situation, increases stress and leads to higher levels of aggression. Besides the additional stress and aggravation pre-boarding, passengers are being nickel and dimed by the airlines for everything, services are being removed,and of course more people are being crammed into smaller spaces on more and more uncomfortable seats. It is a guarantee that more altercations will occur.
I predict you will see an uptick of these types of incidents on Canadian carriers also this winter now that Air Canada Rouge is cramming more people onto harder more uncomfortable 29 inch pitch seats with far less overhead storage and no seat back IFE to distract them.