{"id":195953,"date":"2025-04-05T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/reclining-seats-piss-off-travelers\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T13:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:00:15","slug":"why-reclining-seats-piss-off-so-many-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=195953","title":{"rendered":"Why Reclining Seats Piss Off So Many Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On airplanes, hundreds of passengers have no choice but to be packed in a flying tube for hours while sitting uncomfortably close to each other. Generally,        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2040854\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/airplane-etiqiette-top-tips\/\" >people tend to be on their best behavior<\/a><\/span> however, it&#8217;s unpleasant when people invade one&#8217;s personal space by reclining right into it, practically placing their seats in one&#8217;s lap. Ask any regular flier, they will likely have some opinions and anecdotes about people reclining their         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"121926\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/seats\/\"  >seats<\/a><\/span>. Although it&#8217;s not as big a deal as it used to be, here is why seat reclining is annoying and how to avoid the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reclining seats have been eliminated from many low-cost airlines and reduced on short-haul mainline aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13240,2097,1558,651,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-commercial-aviation","category-low-cost","category-seat-pitch","category-seats","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195954,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195953\/revisions\/195954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}