Originally Posted by
Tchiowa
If the sun is shining and you open the shade then it affects anyone trying to sleep or trying to watch a video on the entertainment system. The etiquette is "close the shade".
Unless the person in the window seat can also control the sun then you're wrong.
Sun shining directly into the eyes is one thing. Wanting to just open or close for their own enjoyment is quite different. I have had an aisle pax ask for the window open so they could look out. If that I so important, book a window seat and stop staring at me....
Common sense says if the sun I shining DIRECTLY into someone's eyes, that you should close it. I have been the recipient. Of the sunlight with a totally clueless window seater. I survived though.