A means of stopping the airliner seat infront of you from reclining! Just the invention the world has been waiting. (I'm 6'6" so I get a little cheesed off when some 5' runt want to put he seat all the way back. http://www.kneedefender.com/
Do you get these for train seats as well? I just arrived by the night train this morning, and having the guy in front of you sleeping practically in your lap is actually a bit uncomfortable.
Ebar, that's not nice. I'd ban such an invention if I could. What I think is needed is a little more space on a plane. Some airlines pack more seats into the same type of aircraft than others.
A little more space? On my fifteen-hour flight from Taipei to Amsterdam I simply could not sit in any seat except the one by the aisle, reclined or not! I would have understood this if I had flown an Asian airline, but I was flying KLM... These knee defenders seem to be quite an antisocial way of preventing the person in front of you from reclining his seat - you might also try asking him. Alternatively you could call on the cabin crew to help you persuade him to acknowledge your existence and have some decency.
Are you a tall person? Anyway, asking the cabin crew to sort something out is more fair overall than putting on these knee defenders and ruining someone else's flight for your own sake.
Yes, I am tall even by Dutch standards (about 195cm), but it's one thing to be tall, another to be utterly unable to fit your upper legs between your own seat and the one in front of you. Indeed. If you ask them, they will usually do you that favour, if only to make sure you won't bother them again during the flight. If they don't have the decency to consider your discomfort, then they didn't deserve to have the reclining option in the first place. That's when I'd call for the cabin crew if I wasn't already in an aisle seat.
i dont know why airlines couldnt have tiny sleeping berths ,like on a 30s era battleship ,but each enclosed witha tiny tv screen ,internet what ever ..on those really long flights ,wouldnt it be great if you could stretch out flat and sleep or read or whatever laying down instead of drooling on your shirt front or being squeezed like roel for 14 hours ...ive flown back and fourth across the pacific 4 times so i know what a hidieous flight it is...the bunks would have to be coffin sized and stacked floor to ceiling , couples could have double berths ect... but to be able to really sleep through the whole trip ...what a joy..
Claustrofobia would definitely kick in at that size... I don't think you could get me into a coffin for any length of time unless I'm dead.
Especially since you are above average height... which means you'd probably have to fold yourself up to fit in the 'sleeping berth' - passenger seating areas does seem to be designed for an average height of about 5' 4'' :angry:
The otherwise fairly rubbish Ryanair does have one positive point: they've fixed all there seats into the upright position.
I like Ryanair. I've flown to Eire several times with them, and also to Germany, and have no complaints. And I must admit (as a 6 foot tall person) that when on other airlines even if the guy in fornt of me reclines, I still have adequate legroom. At least, the reclining seat does not make it any worse than it already is. I try to get a seat by the escape hatch, as they tend to remove the seat immediately in front of the hatch, which gives greater legroom.
I think airplanes are getting more cramped because the airlines want to make money and so more passengers on the same plane means more profit. Perhaps the airlines think that people 6'5" and taller are not common enough to ruin their business if those individuals were put off?
