Originally Posted by
udontknowme
And when the seating in one section or another is filled, how do you handle that? If you recall from the smoking/non-smoking days, if you ran out of non-smoking seats, a row of smoking was designated non-smoking, even as that might not accomodate some smokers. This caused some rancor at the time, and I can't see the airlines going for anything that further complicates their operations.
Without knowing what kind of numbers will request each, it's hard to say - my own feeling is that the default should be "non-reclining" i.e. designate another row back as NR even if it doesn't accommodate reclining. (I think that the seat in normal/upright position should be the default, with reclining only for people who have declared they are fine with it in front of them as well. And before anyone yells at me, I think it's not a matter of "rights" but of consideration.)
However, even accommodating over-enrollment by doing the opposite, would still be better on most flights for NR so I'd still be ok with that solution.