Originally Posted by
ffsim
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Remember, reclining with small pitch is only a bad thing if the person behind you doesn't recline, too. If everybody reclines, then the pitch is the same as when the seat was upright.
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Perhaps they should just reconfigure the aircraft so that happens automatically. Person in row x seat Y reclines => all seats in row x+n seat Y automatically recline by the same amount at the same time (where n > 0)