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IS IT OK TO RECLINE YOUR SEAT ON AN AIRPLANE?
Real Simple
|February - March 2025
Everyone's got thoughts! We collected yours, then called on the experts to settle the debate once and for all.
Readers say...
Nope, no way!
"That little bit of space doesn't help me. Not worth making someone's flight miserable."
"Airlines need to get rid of that option. No good comes of it."
"Why is it that people recline like it's their birthright? Unless your knees are so far up into your chest that they're cutting off blood flow, the answer is always no."
Sure, why not? 
This story is from the February - March 2025 edition of Real Simple.
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