Welcome to FlyerTalk :) Your post reminds me of this classic FT thread:

Passenger reclined the seat to my knees- so I grabbed and pulled the seat often

The passenger behind you complaining, probably loudly, about you doing something very reasonable and then escalating it to cabin crew and then the supervisor would piss most people off.

It's a 14hrs flight what did he think was going to happen? Some people sleep better with their seats reclined.

Exact! Thread should named: Never fly Economy;) Can`t see any fault by Emirates, that`s the deal. I had it once from NYC to LHR, if I didn`t got an Emergency Exit Seat. Since this day I never flew Economy on a long haul flight again.

How is Emirates economy different from economy on any other international airline? You might as well not fly economy at all because you will have the same experience.

I hate the ppl who complain when I move my seat all the way back.
It's more comfortable for everyones seats to be tilted back, then for everyones seats in the upright position. Which would equal the same space for you either way
So just move your seat back and you'll be happy

it's an issue on any airline and emirates is right to say its a passenger's right - you have the same right to recline as well - if not why have a recline button.
The only exception can be during meal times, but once trays are cleared that no longer applies... hardly reason to never fly Emirates

Actually I prefer to keep my seat up. I usually find it more comfortable that way. But I realize I am in the minority.

And while I of course prefer that the person in front of me not recline, I certainly wouldn't expect it and realize it is their prerogative to recline. I wouldn't think of complaining about it.

Never fly by Emirates
 

I am not even sure it applies during meal times. Say the person in front has reclined and is a sleep and doesn't want a meal. Why should the passenger behind have the right to disrupt his sleep and have him woken up? Why had that passenger got a greater right than the sleeping one? These seats are meant to be designed for this.

But during meal times, if the seat in front is reclined, the tray often presses against the person behind, making it awkward to eat, so most of the time CC ask people to not recline then.

during meal times its not unreasonable to request the seat to be upright. I struggled with this the other day in y from GVA *Shudder* Back to J on fri :D

See what the people in the last row have to say about that.

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Never fly by Emirates
 

Then the seats are badly designed. Why does a person eating a meal have more of a right to wake someone up than the person sleeping have a right to sleep? And I disagree. I have eaten meals with the persons seat infront reclined. It's perfectly fine unless you are very large indeed.

OP, you should never fly with ANY airline in this case anymore..

I'm often reclining my seat, and other than start, landing and meal service, I won't move it back... oh, and I'm not (just) flying EK only :D

We had it with Virgin all the way back from LA once, the couple in front wanted to sleep on the 12 hour over-night (A340-600 2 - 4- 2 config) and I totally understood that however when we asked them nicely if they wouldn't mind just adjusting their seats so we could eat our dinner only to be given a mouthful of abuse, well that was the end of economy flying for me and instead of 4 or 5 trips a year now, it is one or two in business class.

Talk about rude.. for meal service, on every airline flown so far, the FAs insisted that everyone stops reclining and puts their seat upright.. I've seen it a few times "slide", but if one requests the seat in front of it put upright, the FAs will always make sure it is going upright.. (not just on EK, but other airlines like SQ, TG, LH, LX..)