I do not know much about planes, but i do travel a lot. It irritates me that my seat has to be upright during take off and landing, because there is something about the take off that helps me sleep. Can anyone tell me what's so important about the back of the chair that it has to be upright?
2007-01-04 21:22:39 · 5 answers · asked by Mohamed K 2 in Travel ➔ Air Travel
Hi, there - my partner is cabin crew and I'm always annoying her with questions like this.
As you'd expect, there is a safety reason. Most of the 'incidents' occur during take off and landing, especially take off. Having your seat upright gives the person behind you more room to move should they need to escape quickly; also, if the captain instructs you to adopt the brace position (bend forward, head over hands), you'll find this much harder if the seat in front of you is taking up your safety space.
Another question on this line is 'why should i fasten my seatbelt when cruising and why do I need to stay in my seat until the engines are off - I've seen a person 'jump' out of their seat when the plane 'drops' through an air pocket whilst cruising (not uncommon); I've also seen passengers who rush to get bags out of lockers once the plane has landed, be thrown down the aisle when the plane suddenly has to brake or accelerate.
Hope that helps.
2007-01-04 21:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's easier to evacuate the plane if all the seats are in the same position--- gives the passengers as much space as possible between rows. If your seat is upright and the passenger in front of you is reclining, you lose about 6 inches of room. If all the seats are reclined, you have to walk at sort of a funny angle and that can slow your evacuation down. Once you are at cruising altitude they take this restriction away because planes are less likely to crash once they're at cruising altitude.
2007-01-05 05:27:13 · answer #2 · answered by dcgirl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If the landing is undesirable or the airplane has an emergency landing the tray table might want to damage you and the seats are designed to take as many of the end result as achievable contained in the upright position. this is worried with the passengers protection.
2016-12-01 20:47:29 · answer #3 · answered by sobczak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In case something happens during the take off or landing and the plane needs to make an emergency landing, the passengers behind you need to be able to exit their seats in a timely fashion...and with your seat back reclined, that would impeded them to do so...
2007-01-04 21:33:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
to help keep you from just sliding out from under your seat belt
2007-01-04 21:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by wyzrdofahs 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋