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In reply to the discussion: Reclining seats on planes might go away in the future! [View all]Ms. Toad
(34,423 posts)I have had a back injury since the mid 80s. I am always at a pain level of 1-2. If forced to sit in an upright chair for more than about 15 minutes it takes anywhere from a week to several months to return to my base level of pain. The time on the tarmack is about my limit for sitting in an unreclined airplane seat. The last time I flew and was assigned to a non-reclining seat, my flight was less than an hour and I was in agony for more than a week. This was early in the pay extra to choose your seat era. Since then I have always requested, as an accommodation, a reclining seat.
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'So if there aren't reclining seats, I'm in a really hard place for flying. They are not just a teeny-tiny luxury for me, they are a necessity if I want to live as pain free as I am able to. (Even a 1-2 level of constant pain is exhausting - having it bumped up to more than makes life really miserable.)