pnt1

My husband and I were the only ones in F on a CX flight last year and it was so hot that we had to actually ask the FA to turn the cabin temp down, which they actually did! I was so surprised...I feel like if you asked this of any US carrier, the FA would be like...I can ask the captain, but we're not sure if we can do this

vanillabean

It makes sense the noise level has been worse during the last fifteen years, since 9/11; "In the years after 2001, the headlines scrolling across the bottom of CNN and Fox News screens began changing from the catastrophic to the mundane." It's probably also fair to say the temperature has dropped over the last thirty years, likely due to increased overweight of passengers; "In 2002, CRTL quoted a British ergonomics firm that provided data on human hip sizes worldwide. The result? Yep, the United States ranked first (20.6 inches)."

http://archive.azcentral.com/thingstodo/events/articles/2011/09/10/20110910news-crawl-911-attacks-fox-ticker.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/mcgee/2014/09/24/airplane-reclining-seat-pitch-width/16105491/

gabrielz

Before any premium flight on a long-haul non-Gasper (that's what those air vents are called BTW) flight, I will always ask to see the purser and ask them to bring the cabin temp to 20 or lower. If necessary I will ask again before sleep time. I won't ever sweat on board a flight and am not afraid to confront ridiculous FAs about it.

-G