What not to do on a long flight!! Don't do unto others, what they do unto you.

This won't come as a revelation to most, but today I was on a US Air flight from Charlotte to Denver and it really hit me what the airline industry does to flyers everyday in this country. (See attached photo to emphasize my point) Airline seats are small enough to start with, so who came up with the idea to allow airline seats to recline. If you really need to sleep it's one thing, but come on, who can really sleep on an airplane to start with. Most people get into one of these seats and as soon as they get the okay they pop the button and lay their seat down. Have you ever really noticed what this does to the average flyer. You go from having about 18 inches of useable space to less than a foot of space in which to navigate during the flight. You can't really open up a laptop, you can't eat or drink, but still people obliviously lay those seats down not even thinking of those wiery travelers behind them. Next time, I ask you to think twice. This photo was taken without a flash upon a US Air flight, so no FAA regulations were violated and no flight attendants were injured during this photo shoot.