I paid extra for my British Airways seat, but it didn’t recline
Vivienne Pearson’s airline seat — the one for which she paid an extra 40 pounds — doesn’t recline. A flight attendant promised her a refund, but now the airline is balking.
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Whose armrest is it, anyway? The unspoken etiquette of airline seats
Jacy Reese was just being polite when he offered to switch airline seats with a mother and her young son on a recent flight from Copenhagen, Denmark, to Toronto. But as the old saying goes, no good deed goes unpunished.
Do you have the right to recline your economy class seat back as far as it goes?
Many airlines are squeezing the seats in steerage closer together to make more money while lavishing elite customers with more perks.