Originally Posted by
stupidhead
17. PLEASE wait until AFTER takeoff to abruptly recline your seatback, almost hitting the head of the person behind you. If you're going to recline your seatback, at least have the decency to ask or do it SLOWLY, so I can move my head/laptop out of the way. Oh, and reclining your seatback after landing and during taxiing to the gate is just silly. Short of your having a medical excuse, I won't have it.
Ditto. I'm a recliner, and unapologetic about it. But one should definitely recline *slowly* and not slam the thing back - doing otherwise can spill drinks, and it allows people time to move knees, laptops, etc out of the way.
Seatbacks should be up when the crew says so for landing and stay up until the next flight is in the air. They should ideally also be up during meals (CX usually makes a crew instruction to that effect) although I usually sleep through and skip breakfast on long flights and if nobody wakes me up to put
my seat up, it stays back.