There's been a third reclining airplane seat incident

[oreos]

First it was that United flight where a passenger used an illegal device to prevent the person in front of them from reclining. Then an air marshal on an American Airlines flight arrested a traveler who wouldn’t give up on his complaint about the woman in front of him putting her seat back. Delta now continues this trend, diverting a flight that was almost at its destination because one passenger thought her tray table was for napping.

WPTV reports that Delta Flight 2370 from LaGuardia in NYC to Palm Beach International in Florida had to be diverted to Jacksonville on Monday night “due to safety reasons in regard to a passenger issue.”

A witness tells the station that a woman on the plane tried to recline her seat, but this didn’t go over well with the woman behind her, who was apparently trying to rest her head on the tray table at the time.

He says the napping passenger “started screaming and swearing and the flight attendant came over and that just exacerbated what was going on, and then she demanded that the flight land.”

According to the witness, the irate passenger began cussing at the flight attendants while demanding to return to terra firma, saying something like “I don’t care about the consequences, put this plane down now.”

The flight, which normally takes fewer than 2.5 hours to complete, then landed after just over two hours in Jacksonville, where the irate passenger was taken off the plane.

According to FlightAware.com, the plane got back up in the air about an hour later, making the 45-minute trip to Palm Beach.


consumerist.com/2014/09/02/this-is-getting-old-another-flight-diverted-over-reclining-seat-spat/

[readyin07]

If I was on one of these planes, someone would be getting hurt. I do not like take offs and landings as it is. Add on one of each bc of some jerk off people and I would need an air Marshall to contain me.

[meshaliuknits]

Can we start locking these crazy people in the bathroom until the plane lands when it's so close to it's destination?

[pixy0stix]

Why are people such fuckwads?

[oreos]

Sept 2, 2014 14:40:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Why are people such fuckwads?

No idea. I've gotten angry about any number of things while flying (primarily men who think their balls are as big as basketballs and spread their legs to accommodate).

I never act on that anger, though. I'll just sit and seeth internally, counting the minutes/hours until I can get off the plane.

[Velar Fricative]

I tend to avoid the Senior Citizen & Mobster Shuttle. I see I have another reason to continue avoiding it.

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 2, 2014 14:40:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Why are people such fuckwads?

[ijack]

I use the tray table for napping

[2curlydogs]

Sept 2, 2014 14:49:50 GMT -5 ijack said:

I use the tray table for napping

How on earth does this even work? 

[ijack]

Sept 2, 2014 14:52:27 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:49:50 GMT -5 ijack said:

I use the tray table for napping

How on earth does this even work? 

I just put my head down on my arms, like you would if you fell asleep at a desk. Except more crunched.

[oreos]

Sept 2, 2014 14:52:27 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:49:50 GMT -5 ijack said:

I use the tray table for napping

How on earth does this even work? 

My DH does this. He puts his elbows on the tray table and rests his head in his hand. 

[Velar Fricative]

Sept 2, 2014 14:53:24 GMT -5 ijack said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:52:27 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

How on earth does this even work? 

I just put my head down on my arms, like you would if you fell asleep at a desk. Except more crunched.

I can't fathom that being comfortable at all. 

[Deleted]

Sept 2, 2014 14:42:30 GMT -5 oreos said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:40:34 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

Why are people such fuckwads?

No idea. I've gotten angry about any number of things while flying (primarily men who think their balls are as big as basketballs and spread their legs to accommodate).

I never act on that anger, though. I'll just sit and seeth internally, counting the minutes/hours until I can get off the plane.

LOL!  This is my pet peeve as well.  I was just on a flight where I had to sit cross legged (I'm just shy of 6 feet, no easy task on a flight) because the asshole next to me apparently needed to sit with his legs spread to the extreme.   

And I did the same, sit and seethed internally and then complained to my husband when I got home.

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 2, 2014 14:49:50 GMT -5 ijack said:

I use the tray table for napping

But if the person in front of you reclines you don't loose your shit, right? If so, then it's cool.

[ijack]

Sept 2, 2014 14:57:10 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:49:50 GMT -5 ijack said:

I use the tray table for napping

But if the person in front of you reclines you don't loose your shit, right? If so, then it's cool.

I don't think I'd be able to. Them leaning back would trap my head against the tray

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 2, 2014 14:58:29 GMT -5 ijack said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:57:10 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

But if the person in front of you reclines you don't loose your shit, right? If so, then it's cool.

I don't think I'd be able to. Them leaning back would trap my head against the tray

LOL

[abramos]

I am already apprehensive when I fly so why do I need to deal with a-holes like this?? Makes me want to start saving my money for my own personal jet.

[sparrowsong]

Sept 2, 2014 14:53:24 GMT -5 ijack said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:52:27 GMT -5 2curlydogs said:

How on earth does this even work? 

I just put my head down on my arms, like you would if you fell asleep at a desk. Except more crunched.

I do it too. You can only get away with it if you're short enough. I traveled a lot as a kid because my dad was a pilot and this was definitely the most comfortable position, where I could fall sound asleep with being woken up by my head suddenly dropping or lolling to the side. Worked until I was around 5'3 or 5'4 then you don't really have enough room to be as comfortable. I'm 5'5 now and try it but end up with a cramp in my neck pretty quick.

[wawa]

Sept 2, 2014 14:56:15 GMT -5 @heyitsme said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:42:30 GMT -5 oreos said:

No idea. I've gotten angry about any number of things while flying (primarily men who think their balls are as big as basketballs and spread their legs to accommodate).

I never act on that anger, though. I'll just sit and seeth internally, counting the minutes/hours until I can get off the plane.

LOL!  This is my pet peeve as well.  I was just on a flight where I had to sit cross legged (I'm just shy of 6 feet, no easy task on a flight) because the asshole next to me apparently needed to sit with his legs spread to the extreme.   

And I did the same, sit and seethed internally and then complained to my husband when I got home.

this happened to me on my last flight and I made a promise to myself that the next time I end up next to an arm rest hogging leg spreader I'm going to start actually say something.  In my out loud voice.  I mean really.  Have these people never gone on road trips with siblings?  there is an invisible line.  DO NOT CROSS IT.

[ijack]

Sept 2, 2014 15:04:00 GMT -5 sparrowsong said:

Sept 2, 2014 14:53:24 GMT -5 ijack said:

I just put my head down on my arms, like you would if you fell asleep at a desk. Except more crunched.

I do it too. You can only get away with it if you're short enough. I traveled a lot as a kid because my dad was a pilot and this was definitely the most comfortable position, where I could fall sound asleep with being woken up by my head suddenly dropping or lolling to the side. Worked until I was around 5'3 or 5'4 then you don't really have enough room to be as comfortable. I'm 5'5 now and try it but end up with a cramp in my neck pretty quick.

I'm 5'9" and can do it, but my hands fall asleep very quickly.

[ringstrue]

I thought you weren't allowed to put your head down on the tray table? Like, isn't that in the instructions at the beginning of every flight?

[ESF]

I didn't think there could be a bigger jerk than someone who reclines all the way back, but as it turns out, someone who insists that they land the plane RIGHT NAO rather than have to suffer a few more minutes is that person.

[josieposy]

Alright. No seats for anybody ever again.

[Velvetshady]

Sept 2, 2014 14:39:45 GMT -5 meshaliuknits said:

Can we start locking these crazy people in the bathroom until the plane lands when it's so close to it's destination?

No, no, no. The bathroom is too good for them and people might actually want to use it. Just issue every plane a roll of duct tape and instructions to stuff them in the "hanging garment bag" cabinet.

[pixy0stix]

If someone forces a plane to land, they can't ever fly again, yes?

[UMaineTeach]

we should just start tasing these people. the cops tase for no reason all the time or after half a warning.

making me have an hour delay <30 mins from my destinations is a reason.


straight jacket the rest of the flight if they don't agree to sit down and shut up.

behavior contract.

something. I feel like them getting off the plane is rewarding this behavior and giving them all the power and control over everyone else on the flight.

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 2, 2014 15:17:51 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

If someone forces a plane to land, they can't ever fly again, yes?

This is an appropriate consequence. Unless there is a bomb or a fire or something on the plane prompting the demand.

[meshaliuknits]

Sept 2, 2014 15:11:44 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I thought you weren't allowed to put your head down on the tray table? Like, isn't that in the instructions at the beginning of every flight?

I was just on two flights, but I don't recall that instruction.

[Nonny]

Sept 2, 2014 15:11:44 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I thought you weren't allowed to put your head down on the tray table? Like, isn't that in the instructions at the beginning of every flight?

I haven't flown since January, but I've never seen that be part of the safety instructions. I've also never been called out by a flight attendant for doing it.

[ijack]

Sept 2, 2014 15:11:44 GMT -5 ringstrue said:

I thought you weren't allowed to put your head down on the tray table? Like, isn't that in the instructions at the beginning of every flight?

no