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If the seat reclines, you can recline. Look back first and do it slowly. That's the etiquette.
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On a two and a half hour early morning flight, I reclined my seat about halfway once the seatbelt sign went off, to try to sleep. The passenger behind me tapped my shoulder and asked me to put it back up because he was working on his laptop.
I said sorry, but I'd paid for a seat that reclines and I was going to sleep. He sighed loudly for the rest of the flight and jolted my seat every time he typed.
He says short-haul seats have very little legroom, and reclining makes it impossible to use a laptop or even a tray table. He says the polite thing on a short flight is not to recline, especially without checking first.
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If the seat reclines, you can recline. Look back first and do it slowly. That's the etiquette.
Jolting your seat every time he typed is the actual rude bit here.
Short-haul legroom is so bad that reclining genuinely crushes the person behind. I never do it.
Then the airline should stop making seats that recline. Not the passenger's fault.
Being allowed to do something and it being considerate are different things.
Early morning flight, trying to sleep, halfway recline. Fine.