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Haitian born Edmond Alexandre faces U.S. charges over reclining airline seat

January 22, 2015 7:27 PM
There are some who would prefer that reclining seat backs be eliminated altogether. Recently, one 60 year old Haitian, now a Paris resident named Edmond Alexandre, has been accused of a first ever crime in his life. This happened because of a heated dispute on reclining seat issue on a Paris bound flight from Miami. When a woman passenger sitting in his front reclined her seat in a manner that encroached his space, they two got involved into a heated dispute. Edmond was so enraged that he grabbed a flight attendant by the arm and later when he was subdued, arrested aboard the plane for assaulting a flight attendant. However, his attorney Joshua Robert Hanye has said, in no way he posed any threats to other fellow passengers. As a result of this feud, the flight was diverted to Boston. There are few other recent instances of flight diversions for the same cause arising out of reclining seat backs. Any charge of such interference or any attempted cause for such interference is a punishable offense, if convicted on certain extremes, may end up to 20 years imprisonment.

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Although being courteous is really the golden rule, a recent online survey reveals that 90% of the people of average height think that the plane seats are uncomfortably cramped often beyond the scope of any compromise. The study further suggests that 67.6% passengers believe that airlines should be blamed for the increasingly cramped situation while 23.3% blame the passenger behind the recliner and only 9.1% charge the reclining passengers. 12.1% passengers prefer to upgrade in all cases and out of the rest, 28.2% prefers to upgrade depending upon its related costs and 19.7% may pay extra for comfort depending upon the length of the flight. However, 62.2% people expect that the government should ensure a better in-flight experience.

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