Happy New Year!
Your submissions to Planeguage have been terrific – keep them coming! A consistent observation (OK, complaint) involves the passenger who aggressively, without warning, reclines their seat into your lap. Trust us, we hear you.
Our latest addition to Planeguage is called, “Domino” and we hope the short kindly reflects the mayhem that could ensue if an entire row fully reclined their seats simultaneously without warning.
We hope you enjoy it and more importantly, we hope that your fellow passengers will stop, think and look before they recline their seat next time.
As always, we look forward to hearing from you!
Jaime
General Manager
Marketing
January 17th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Great video! I hate it when people recline their seat ALL the way back and constantly move in it!
January 17th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Very funny!!
January 17th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Honestly, if it makes everyone so mad when the person in front of them reclines, then WHY DO AIRLINE SEATS STILL RECLINE? It wasn’t a problem when you had more than a half-inch of legroom, but with seat pitch getting ever-closer to zero, why even put this feature on the seats anymore?
What baffles me even more are the people who get mad when the person in front of them reclines, but don’t hesitate to recline their own seats.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
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January 21st, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Great video! And unfortunately sooo true
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Quote: “passenger who aggressively, without warning, reclines their seat into your lap. Trust us, we hear you.”
“tvDAN” is absolutely right. Delta (and all other airlines as well) should introduce seats like Cathay Pacific uses in their new Economy Class [Link], which recline without using space from the row behind.
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
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January 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Those Cathay Pacific economy seats address another problem with the way current coach seats recline: seatback video screens. On current seats when the person in front of you reclines the video screen moves. I think Cathay Pacific is really on to something here, hopefully Delta will adopt something like this so we can recline if we want without the passenger behind us getting bloody knees or their view of the seatback monitor being disrupted. (Now if Delta would just put video on the MD88…)
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:20 am
If seats are designed to recline (even if it is just a tiny bit), then passengers have the right to move them back. In my 20 years of globe trotting I have NEVER EVER had a passenger in front of me ask me if I would mind if they reclined. And, frankly, I personally also have NEVER EVER asked the person behind me.
This video does nothing to address the problem, and it does not offer any solutions either.
But it does highlight (as many of the other posters have already said) the issue of complete lack of personal space in Economy. On a recent flight from Manchester to Atlanta in economy I had to move five times so I could keep working on my computer! Again, not complaining about people reclining – it’s everybody’s right.
I doubt very much that Delta will be a front runner in changing their seating lay-out. After all Delta is just converting some long haul configs to fully reclining seat whereas more innovative airlines already offer private suites.
I will make one exception. I flew a Delta flight from Washington Reagan to Atlanta not long ago on an Embraer. I was very impressed with the space in economy. Mind you, this was not a Delta owned plane, but a Shuttle America plane…
September 13th, 2008 at 3:59 pm
Travelling on one of your regional carriers I see quite a bit of uncomfortable passengers. I’m short and fit almost comfortably in the seats, but until I sat next to Dave I didn’t think things could be worse. Dave is a 6′6″ pilot of this small plane. We gripe and complain about our hour and a half on board, this guy is on this plane constantly!
And as to adding video on the MD88, I’d rather see you retire those old planes!
October 21st, 2008 at 11:32 pm
When will more videos come out?
Hopefully more Holiday movies
-Ryan
July 26th, 2009 at 9:18 am
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