We all know about the recent plane diversions and flare-ups in online anger about coach seats reclining or not.

Without getting into strong opinions one way or another (disclosure: I'm anti-reclining), has any airline considered just having the plane split into two sections, one for each camp of people?

Specifically, I have been thinking since the Smoking/No-Smoking code became obsolete, surely something like that could be instituted.

It would make sense either to have, e.g. the left side of the plane be for Recliners and the right side for Non-Recliners, or for the front to be for Non-Recliners and the back for Recliners. (I say the front and back in this order because it wouldn't be fair otherwise to be the transition row as a NR with an R right in front of you, and the Emergency Exit rows actually offer a reasonable break point where in fact, there is no reclining right in front.)

I think that the only reason Recliners would object to this, is that secretly, they all hope to be behind Non-Recliners while leaning back themselves. But I think this is unreasonable.

Maybe we can just declare on FT that left side is for Recliners and right side for Non-Recliners.

What do people think?