If you recline your seat too far during a flight, you might get air blasted
If you are on the flight and feeling like reclining, be mindful of the person behind you. If you leave them with no room, or if they feel that you have left them with no room, you could be getting extra action from their air conditioner. There is a video that has gone viral providing many viewers with this tip.
From Fox News:
An anonymous TikTok user who goes by the handle @theLKshow and appears to be from London, according to their Etsy account, is advising people to redirect their overhead fans toward recliners as a way to get them to readjust their seats.
In a ceiling-facing six-second video, theLKshow wrote about their strategy in white on-screen text.
“Unethical life hack: When you are on a flight and the person in front of you reclines their seat all the way and leave you no room. Turn on the air con above you on full blast and point it at the top of their head,” theLKshow wrote, which is accompanied by the song “Blicky” from New Orleans music duo Fresh x Reckless.
At the time of publication, the video had received more than 2.4 million views, 111,300 likes, 16,200 shares, 5,200 saves and 2,900 comments.
“The plane ride is so long when you get one of these people in front of you,” theLKshow captioned the video along with a yawn emoji and the hashtags #plane, #reclinetheseat and #annoyingpassengers.
The video resparked the age-old debate about whether plane passengers should have reclining seats.
“There are 2 kinds of people in this world: those who recline and don’t care, and those who will never recline,” said one TikTok user, whose comment received more than 11,900 likes.
“Recliner seats are there to recline,” another user wrote.
“And air cons are there to air con,” another commenter quipped.
Fox News has additional information. The video that comes with this article features a woman who dealt with an annoying passenger behind her. He kept hitting the back of her seat and would not stop.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
Waiting for the first passenger to claim assault by AC when they land.
A/C on the top of my head.
Bring it, bitches! Feels good to me.
I seriously don’t get what all the fuss is about. Maybe I just fly the wrong airlines. Or maybe this is an issue that only affects first class? I fly back in livestock class so every plane I’ve ever flown on, the recline was maybe two inches. Not enough to either provide comfort to the recliner, nor seriously infringe on the space behind them.
On long flights with the little monitor on the back of the seat, I actually like it when the person in front of me reclines, because it moves the tiny screen a couple inches closer to me and makes it easier to see on the rare occasion they actually have something on it that I’m interested in watching.
I’ve been on flights in coach class where the person in front of me practically had their head resting in my lap! It all depends on the airline and how old the seat is (older seats tend to recline further).
I had one flight where I had to put my computer on the tray table for the (thankfully empty) seat next to me because the reclining seat would not allow the computer to open the screen where it could be seen!
That being said, I’ve also been on flights where the person sitting next to me leaned over so far (and wouldn’t take the hint nor respond when asked) that I had to spend the entire 90 minute flight (other than take off and landing) standing in the aisle, and the flight crew did nothing!
Last aircraft I flew aboard was a B-17G
Plenty of leg room except in the ball turret.
I got spoiled on P-3s.
Tired? Cop a spot on the deck for a nap.
Bored? Head to the cockpit. Maybe your pilot buds will let you fly the plane.
Hungry?…well, u get the idea.
Pay no attention to the AW1 in the front left seat- he’s just racking up multi-engine instrument time.
Another reason to avoid flying unless an absolute necessity and a reminder why bulkhead/business/first class is better than coach and all the idiocy that goes with it.
Between the airports and the airplanes “the friendly skies” have been ruined. I have folks I would love to see, but I will never see them again if it involves me getting on an airplane. I would rather spend three days in a car than a few hours on a plane.
We find if we can drive there in 12 hours we’re driving…otherwise the wife will fly but she’s terrible on a plane everything makes her nervous these days so that’s no fun either…Im with you I’d rather rent a hotel room and drive a little more than fly if possible…
Flying in the 1970s and 80s was a lot more fun…it was like the airlines and the crews were actually happy to see you and were grateful you chose their airlines, these days you’re like cattle to be herded onto the plane and directed like prisoners the entire time…
“We find if we can drive there in 12 hours we’re driving”
I travel a lot for work and that’s my policy as well.
You have to show up at least an hour (I usually do 2) before the flight to get through security, and the only affordable flights have at least one connection, so even flying a short distance takes all day anyway.
The company only cares that I get there within a day so if I can drive it in 12 hours, I’ll drive.
If I flew, I’d have to rent a car after I got there anyway, so it just adds two days to the car rental, plus gas – which is MUCH cheaper than airfare, so it’s a win-win.
Unfortunately, most of my travel is cross-country so I don’t get to use that option as often as I’d like.
I have such an extreme hatred for the TSA pukes that I’ll drive, to hell with flying anymore.
“Flying in the 1970s and 80s was a lot more fun”
Cargo class in a C-130 was the usual air taxi in Viet of the Nam.
Somebody should start a new airline….all Hercs.
My fave Hercky bird memory, other than chuted up, is being strapped to the floor with rows of other soldiers, in the Viet of the Nam.
“Been over-air conditioned while flying? You may qualify for compensation, call Dewey, Cheatem and Howe …”
Young Poe employed the “head-cooler” as far back as forty years ago when the airlines first began to tighten up the leg room in coach. Fortunately, he flew so much that he was usually upgraded to first class where it wasn’t a problem.
However, when he took on a coast-to-coast consulting gig twenty years ago, he’d lost that privileged free upgrade status, so he found himself chilling inconsiderate heads fairly frequently.