Originally Posted by
zcat18
I was listening to WGN on the way to work this morning, and their news update featured a brief story on the 787. Apparently, ANA flight attendants are complaining that the no-touch window shades are not darkening the cabin, making it difficult to work (and difficult for passengers to sleep or use IFE) on the westbound longhauls. As a result, NH brass are asking Boeing to fix the issue to make the shading darker. In the meantime, NH are retrofitting two 787s with traditional pull-down window shades.
Seems that, if there is to be a first-year glitch, this is not a bad one to have. Interesting nonetheless, and I wonder if this will further delay delivery to United and others.
Maybe so, but it's easy to test in a lab. Unlike issues that arise only in field trials, air trials or in operation, how much light the windows will block is easily tested in labs.
I bet that they did not account for additive effect of a small percentage of light coming through each of a hundred or so windows.
I am not making that argument, but one can make the argument that if Boeing cannot get something so simple right, how can it be trusted to have done other things, especially which are not so obvious to a lay person, well?