He said: "You just got back into your seat, you're all comfy, you built your little nest, you put all your electronics away, put all the stuff in the overhead compartment and you're thinking to yourself, it's time to relax, I'm going to recline my seat a little bit.
"So you push that button and the seat won't recline, you push it again and it just won't recline, you're like what in the world is going on?
'I'm an American Airlines pilot – there's two reasons your chair won't recline on plane' Let's face it, we all love to travel.
American Airlines pilot Steve, who boasts 220,000 followers on TikTok, usually delights fans with interesting knowledge on flight secrets and recently, the frustrating reason cabin crew still go through security.
It's one of two things my friends, either you're up in the back row against the bulkhead and that seat isn't going to recline, why because there's a wall behind you.
