swtgi1982
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My husband is an Air Force pilot (but they still deal with the FAA). As far as I know they are FAA Regulations not recomendations and the airline can not go against what the FAA says. I would call him and ask, but he is home sick and I hate to wake him up right now.
I am very interested to find out what further info you get from United and from the FAA! I will say that even if the rules say that you can RF, flight atendants don't always know the rules and will tell you you need to turn the seat around. I personally had one tell me that. I stated that I had the FAA regulations with me and that they said I could RF. We were still at the gate and the flight attendant said they could have the agent come discuss this with me, but when my DH said go ahead and get the agent he backed off saying he would let it go b/c we were all in a hurry to get going.
that was my assumption as well.
I sent out an email as well since we are looking into travel soon and will need to know as well