Seriously?? Third flight diverted over reclining seat row!

Alright - let's layer in a little math for fun. An extremely tall inseam for a man would be 38" (we're talking special order or a big and tall store and you're probably topping 6'6" and/or have a higher than normal % of leg. A cursory search says femur to tibia ratios range from abut 52% to 56% we'll go on the high side and say our tall man has a femur length of 21.3 inches. Now here we're getting a little unscientific. I measured my womanly behind (which I'm going to guess is probably rounder than a typical man's) and from seat back to start of my inseam is 8". So our tall man needs 29.5 inches from the seat back to fit his knees in economy. Now most low cost airlines have downsized from a a stand seat pitch of 33-35 to 31" (particularly on short distance flights). With a 31" pitch and a 1" seat cushion our tall travelers knees brush the chair in front of him. For a longer flight, or less squishy airlines he has an inch or two at most with his back flat against the back of his seat. Uncomfortable, I bet, absolutely no wiggle room - and forget about crossing your legs, it's not going to happen. He chooses one of those crappy 30" pitch airlines, he is definitely going to be uncomfortable. BUT, his knees aren't up by his ears. If your inseam tops 36 inches or you have a particularly rotund behind - you're going to be uncomfortable. But as 74% of passengers say they're not willing to pay more for more legroom - airlines have no incentive to put fewer seats on the plane and charge more.

I think they should have reclining seats and nonreclining seats, each in their own section of the plane. All reclining are grouped together so as not to impact a nonreclining passenger. This would be for domestic flights only. Those that want to recline can do so as much as they want and the nonrecliners won't have to deal with people's heads in their laps. A win/win.

In the reclining section, a row or two of seats would be removed to make reclining the seats as comfortable as possible with minimal impact on the reclining seat behind them. Because the reclining side now generates less money, their seat price would be increased for luxury of being able to recline. The extra charge would be to make up the price of the lost seats/rows in that section. Of course, this would never come to pass, but it would prevent disturbances about seats while in the air. The reclining passengers would bitch about paying more, but at least they would be assured the ability to recline without a fight or something being thrown at them from a fellow passenger.

Yes! Though it's beginning to look as though airlines are probably going to have to stop seats reclining because diverting due to rows like this must cost a huge amount of money, what with fuel and extra landing fees etc., not to mention the rest of the passengers becoming very unhappy!!