Originally Posted by
GordoN2016
I've contacted United to see if it's SOP on their flights or on Star Alliance flights so we'll see what they have to say.
The flight in question that has me so irked was from Houston to Tokyo, leaving in the morning and arriving in the evening Tokyo time so I wanted to stay awake to avoid jet lag. And - this is the main thing - we were flying up the coast of Alaska, across the Bering Sea then down along Siberia, so heaps of icebergs, glaciers, and just lots of scenery most people won't get to see in their lifetime.
It's a lovely set of scenery - I loved seeing the terrain of Siberia through the window on my way to Tokyo a couple of years ago, it was stunning. They dimmed all the windows after the meal service (in other words, during the daytime of our departure destination) but I was able to undim mine a bit to look outside. No one said anything, or indicated any sort of unhappiness, I suspect, in part, because I was on the right hand side (the non sunny side) of the plane, so glare wasn't an issue.