Nothing is ruder than the person in front of you leaning their seat back - In evidently it always seems to be the person that is overweight that causes the chair to lean back even further. Airlines are a microcosm of the rude it all about me attitude of society.

Why is it rude to use the comfort features that are designed into the aircraft so I can get some sleep? And if the guy in front of me has leaned his seat back, why is it rude of me to get back the space I had originally by leaning back?

I do not lean my seat back, I think it is incondiderate of the person sitting behind me.
I wish people would bathe before they board and the airlines should hand out breath mints as you board.
While I am complaining I wish the airlines would stick to the “you have to buy two seats if you are over weight”. If I didn’t have bad luck I would have no luck, I always seem to get stuck next to two ton tess on flights.

Being tall, leg room is always at a premium. Love to get the emergency aisle or bulkhead seats for leg room. So while I don’t consider it rude for the person in front of me to lean back, it does often times make it uncomfortable. Leaning my seat back does not give me any more leg room.

It is apparently just a case of being possessive of personal space. Actually to expect the person to NOT recline thier seat back is (IMJ) a selfish expectation.

I don’t lean my chair all the way back, just a little bit.. enough to make the seat more comfortable for me, but not enough to interfere with the person behind me (just a few inches).

Now since I used to fly a number of later night flights which weren’t seated to capacity I would occasionally find no one behind me!

I agree with mepps1 — a compromise is best. I lean the chair back slightly to help with comfort, but not enough to irritate my fellow passenger. Do unto others, right? I don’t want someone else’s seat in my lap

Usually, I sit on my butt.