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Old Sep 22, 2019, 12:16 pm
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WineCountryUA
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Originally Posted by sfvoyage
Is there a source where I can find seat recline information, for UA .....
For UA, see specific aircraft details @ https://www.united.com/web/en-us/con...t/default.aspx

Originally Posted by sfvoyage
Also, does anyone know how these recline inches are measured? To me, degree of recline is easy to visualize: 0 = no recline, 90 = full horizontal (flat). Recline expressed in "inches" has always baffled me a bit...
With conventional economy seats, the seatback is 30-ish inches tall, you are generally on the 5- to 10-degree additional recline (roughly double the inches to get degrees for small angles in this case - interesting trig prob, hopefully I got the trig right)
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