What an idiot.

PEOPLE need comfort – it doesn’t matter on a 30 minute – 2 hour flight, but a 6, 8, 15 hour flight, it matters.

Ideally the airlines should not use reclining seats, decide on an angle and fix the seats in that angle, period, no fuss no muss, no hassle.

I just wish they could figure out a way to lock the seat without having to put the tray down. the whole having to act quickly once the seat belt sign goes out is tricky. If you could attach them as soon as you sit down when ALL the seats are in the correct upright position, that would be the best solution.

The inconsiderate people are the recliners. And most will go ballistic if they discover your using a block (as confirmed by the posts in this blog) .

I paid for MY space, I want MY space. when someone reclines it invades MY space. I lose space the recliner is the one grabbing extra space.

I have been known to jam paperbacks between the tray and seatback, effectively doing what this does, although not as easily and eloquently.

BAN RECLINING SEATS ON ALL AIRPLANES!

The best solution is, when the person in front reclines their seat, simply ask them if they’d mind if they didn’t, explaining why. Most considerate people won’t oppose. If they do anyway, then to hell with them. It’s a lot like being at the football grounds, if one person stands up then they all have to, similarly with this, if one person puts their seat back, then they all have to.

Not to sound like a buzzkill, but it is really really easy to shatter them, and to be honest, I wouldn’t hesitate to break them if used on my seat to keep me from reclining.

The bean counter that thought of this grand idea of squeezing one more row of seats into the plane should be stoned with these knee defenders..

2 cents.

I hope that the airlines ban this appalling idea forthwith – the inventor should be uttterly ashamed of himself.

There are bulkhead seats, exit rows and even first/business class. Those are the alternatives for the people phobic about someone reclining in front of them. If you’re too tall or too fat to fit in a regular coach seat, take it up with the airlines or choose a seat that’s appropriate before you board the plane. Do not force someone else to give up their space and comfort to increase your space and comfort.

So if one greedy person uses this in row 25, do they expect everyone up to row 9 to not recline their seats? If not, them some poor shmuck is stuck with the person in front of them reclining and they are not being able to recline. The plight of that poor person would concern some people, but not the type of people who would use this product.

If I was stuck on a 6 hr flight and some idiot behind me tried this, the overprice pieces of plastic would end up being flushed in the toilet.

doug-jensen wrote:

…There have also been reports of a few physical altercations overthe use of these.

Let me be upfront and say that Knee Defender™ is my product. There have been lots and lots of on-line discussions, some heated, about it since it came on the market 3+ years ago. Of course, there were lots and lots of discussions, some heated, about seat reclining before Knee Defender, and they go on apart from the product’s existence. I’ve generally kept out of them, even on occasion when someone has posted something what I think is patently absurd. Of course, that is my opinion of that person’s opinion. Here is a different case, I think.

I’ve never seen any such “reports”. I’ve read news reports of people being arrested for a fight that started after someone was hit in the head by a reclining seat, and there was at least one arrest after two guys had a fist fight over who had the right to an armrest (and BTW I don’t recall the armrest being blamed). But, I’ve not seen a report about my product and some physical altercation. And, none of my customers has ever contacted me to say that anything like that happened. It’s tough to actually prove a negative, but I think that there would have been something definitive come my way if there had been a real problem. Even if something had happened, it’s fascinating that someone might try to justify a guy throwing a punch because his seat wouldn’t recline. It would be like trying to justify a guy throwing a punch because the guy in front had smacked him in the head or the knees or had broken his computer screen by reclining. In any event, if anyone has actual names, dates, places, I’d like to know.

I realize that some people don’t like the product. Actually, even the people who buy it didn’t want to – but they had given up on the alternatives, such as polite requests, because they didn’t work. And as Eddie Lopez kindly pointed out in his review here, “The Knee Defender FAQ is littered with warnings about when you should and shouldn’t use it.” ’cause, as with cell phones, cologne, and nuclear weapons, for some things there is a right way and a wrong way to use them.

http://www.the-gadgeteer.com/review/knee_defender

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