"If this passenger so badly wanted the passenger in front of him not to recline," Mr Barro writes, "he should have paid her to give up that right".
I would be more than happy to buy the passenger in front of me a couple of drinks in exchange for suffering almost as much as I do.
The gadget comes with a euphemistically entitled "courtesy card" that……can be given to the passenger in front of you to tell them you're using the clips.
We arrived at the check-in at 6.30am, but there was a problem with the passenger in front of us, who took several minutes.
That's great, especially for me, since I'm a tall guy and I'd end up playing footsies with the passenger in front of me if seated in economy.
(But if the passenger in front of you reclines, you'll be the one who's injured -- at nearly 13 inches, front to back, the TransNote is about three inches bigger than even the biggest clamshell laptop).
AT first it sounds like a grimly humorous way to describe what you suffered on your last airline flight, when you were wedged for hours in a tight seat and the tray table slammed into your belly like a karate chop after the passenger in front of you decided to recline for a snooze.
So, faced with the anonymous unpleasantness of the passenger in front of me, I made a public vow.
Let's face it, when you're stuck in coach on an American flight, you don't want to pull out your laptop only to have it crushed by the passenger in front of you.
Avoiding the hand, I leaned forward and saw the passenger in front of me was reading a comic.
