Originally Posted by
sammyh25
Never seen that issue before, but no wonder it woke you up!!!
Unfortunately we have had instructions from upon high that under no circumstances are we to disable the First lighting. There were problems early on with random lights coming on mid-flight and the temporary fix was to kill all the cabin lights until engineering could have a look.
However if we do this we have been told that in the event of a decompression the cabin will remain in darkness, hence no killing the lights.
I understood from the CSD on SYD-SIN that the half hour wait was due to them calling London inflight to get the specific authorisation to kill all the lights and plunge us into darkness because as you say this is not normally allowed. I was pretty happy when this came through... No idea why it started again on SIN-LHR though. I guess it's because the first crew didn't actually report the problem and the second crew just switched it all on again?