Ok so I am sure many people as of late have heard about the recent increase in Seat Recline incidents. After the first such incident, I didn’t want to really say anything. My friend David Parker Brown, put out his piece on the brouhaha that occured and I figured that was as good as it would get. Boy o Boy was I wrong!

A bit of Back Story for those who have been living under a rock. Early last week a United flight from Newark to Denver was diverted to an onboard incident. The whole thing went down because a passenger was using a Knee Defender and the passenger in front of him did not like the fact that she could not recline. What is a knee defender? Well it is a device that attaches onto the Tray Table of your economy seat and stops the seat in front from reclining, as though it was broken. These devices are not illegal and the federal authorities couldn’t care if you used it. However the airlines do not allow it, and because you are captive onboard that aircraft, what they say, goes.

So how did this cause an altercation. Well two things happened, but the best way is to read this article about the piece from the AP. Pretty much this guy is now either the most hated man in America or he is the Bravest man in America, it all depends on who you ask.

Now I am not going to weigh in on the whole seat recline issue. What I am going to do is tell people to CALM THE HELL DOWN! Ever since this incident occurred there have been 2 more diversions due to “onboard incidents” with reclining of a seat back being the reason. I mean seriously people! Can’t we just calm the hell down please. If someone wants to recline, be polite about the situation, don’t go getting yourself kicked off the aircraft. People are blaming other passengers, people are blaming the airlines. No one is directly at fault here apart from the people causing these incidents. You can’t blame the person who designed the knee defender, you can’t blame the airlines for reducing seat pitch etc. The only people you can blame is yourself. If you are going to be childish about an incident, and doing it bad enough to get a flight diverted, you have no one to blame but yourself. Your behavior is unacceptable and you are now making it hard for everyone onboard that flight. Why should the rest of the flight suffer because someone reclined!

This is pretty much just me ranting for people to wisen the hell up and act like decent human beings. If you want to play the whole “recline blame game” go fly Ryanair, or Spirit