Originally Posted by artvandalay

They're often closed when I board if the AC has been sitting in the sun. I open them as soon as I sit down.

Once, a SQ FA closed my shades inflight while I went to the lav. When I returned, I opened them (no one in the seat next to me.) She then asked me to close them, and I asked if it was a safety issue. They remained open.

A nice thing about the large 787 windows is they seem to solve this problem for both the flight crews and the pax, as long as the pax has some input.