Delta CEO says passengers should ask permission before reclining their airline seat.
‘But I think that the proper thing to do is that if you’re going to recline into somebody, you ask if it’s OK first. and then you then do it.’ Ed Bastian Delta Air Lines Inc.’s chief executive officer, Ed Bastian, weighed in on a simmering debate about proper decorum when reclining one’s seat on a flight.
“I think if someone knows there’s a tall person behind them, and they want to recline their seat, I think the polite thing would be to make certain it was OK,” Bastian said. “I never recline ’cause I don’t think it’s something — since I’m the CEO of the airline — that I should be reclining my seat. And I never say anything if someone reclines into me.”
MarketWatch’s Catey Hill wrote that more than four in 10 of people believe it is very or somewhat rude to recline your seat during a flight, citing a survey by FiveThirtyEight. Bastian told CNBC that his airline has been testing “reduced recline” in seats, with the current controversy in mind.
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