Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
And the people who want to watch the IFE but can't because of the glare on their screen? They're supposed to bring their own screens with them? Or bring a cardboard box they can wrap around the screen to block the glare?
What you describe (people wanting the shades closed) is not "me, me, me" it's "we, we, we". That's why the FAs will always take the "close the shade" side.
In specific instances where there's glare on a particular IFE screen, I would think the pax could politely ask and the window pax would politely lower the shade. 15 minutes later, the position of the sun would be such that the glare wouldn't be an issue anymore.
The problem is that your rant seems to infer that the shades should be down
all the time because a glare issue
might happen for
some amount of time during the flight on
some screens. @:-)