Originally Posted by Bruiser
I did sat "daytime" ovrseas flights - of course you have the shades down at night! And economy is a different story - more people. less privacy, most impact on entire cabin since seats are so close together. But FC is less intrusive on other passengers if the shade is open a bit.
What's "daytime"?
For me, that means only that the sun happens to be up at the particular location at that particular time. I might still be wanting - even needing - to sleep at that time. For example, a typical LHR-SIN-SYD involves the following: sunrise about three hours into the flight, then an entire day and then sunset before landing - at which time my body clock is only just waking up for the morning, thinking that it's about 8 or 9 am. Then there's another night and sunrise before arriving in SYD. What of that trip is a "daytime" flight?
Or even taking the short hop on LHR-NYC or LHR-MIA - if I want to be sufficiently
compos mentis to make any use of the first evening, I am best trying to get 4 or 5 hours' sleep even though the entire flight is conducted in daylight. And there are many people on those flights whose body clocks are well back into the nighttime sleep zone for most of the flight, having started their journeys in places that are another 8 hours ahead.