American Airlines: We Aren't Changing Reclining Seat Policies

Fights have been breaking out in the suddenly unfriendly skies, over the right to recline your seat in coach. On Tuesday, a Delta flight was forced to divert from a scheduled landing so combative passengers could be kicked off.

Given that there have been several of these incidents over the past week and a half, we wondered if the airlines were making any changes.

Here's what American Airlines told us:

There's no policy for reclining seats

Since there's no policy, cabin crews won't be making proactive seat-reclining announcements

American hasn't seen an uptick in unruly passengers, and only a small percentage of flights have been affected by unruly passengers

Cabin crew will intervene only when the safety of the passengers is an issue

The Captain has ultimate discretion on whether a flight will divert

We also reached out to Delta and United. We'll update if they get back to us.