American Airlines: We Aren't Changing Reclining Seat Policies
Sep 3, 2014, 01:12 IST
Atomic Taco / FlickrPlease don't attack when reclining.Fights have been breaking out in the suddenly unfriendly skies, over the right to recline your seat in coach. On Tuesday, a Delta flight was forced to divert from a scheduled landing so combative passengers could be kicked off.
Given that there have been several of these incidents over the past week and a half, we wondered if the airlines were making any changes.
Here's what American Airlines told us:
There's no policy for reclining seats
Since there's no policy, cabin crews won't be making proactive seat-reclining announcements
American hasn't seen an uptick in unruly passengers, and only a small percentage of flights have been affected by unruly passengers
Cabin crew will intervene only when the safety of the passengers is an issue
The Captain has ultimate discretion on whether a flight will divert
We also reached out to Delta and United. We'll update if they get back to us.