内容摘要："Their concerns have been borne out in the results described in this report."

"Their concerns have been borne out in the results described in this report."

The basic problem is how airlines cram seats onto planes, with passengers having less space than they did in the past, according to Prof Jim Salzman of University of California, Los Angeles."[The airlines] are able to pass on the anger and frustration of cramped seating to passengers who blame each other for bad behaviour instead of the airlines who created the problem in the first place."

William Hanson, an etiquette coach and author, says it's a matter of choosing your time to recline your seat, which you shouldn't do during a meal. Check whether the person behind is leaning on the table, or using a laptop - and recline slowly., he says. Don't expect them to be a mind reader.Another gripe linked to the amount of space people have on planes is double armrest hogging.

Mary, a flight attendant for a major US airline, says she is often given a middle seat between "two guys with both their arms on armrests" when she's being transferred for work and doesn't have a choice of seat.Nearly a third of UK airline passengers found this annoying in 2023, the Skyscanner survey suggested.

Mary has had "a tussle with elbows", she says, but has a strategy for reclaiming the space.

"I wait until they reach for a drink and take the armrest. One [guy] kept trying to push my arm, and I just had to give him a look: 'We're not doing that today.'"Despite his party doing better under the current system than in previous elections, the Lib Dem leader Sir Ed said on Friday morning that he felt the British political system was “still broken” and would continue to support electoral reform.

Though this is the most extreme difference between vote and seat shares seen across the whole of the UK and in England for over a century, other nations of the UK have seen more extreme cases in recent history.In the 2015 general election, the Scottish National Party took half of the votes and 95% of the seats in Scotland - a gap of 45 points between the vote and seat share.

The highest gap recorded in Wales was in the 2001 general election when Labour won just under half of the votes and 85% of Welsh seats in Westminster.The Electoral Reform Society used more complex statistical scoring systems to compare the 2024 election result to others in UK history, but also concluded it was the most disproportionate on record.