Originally Posted by
Eagle2000
Yup, you will experience this. I would change to 777 if possible. I had a Transpac flight to HND where the windows were locked until 30 minutes before landing. I requested to unlock at least pre-landing meal ( 1 hr & 1/2 before landing) and was denied. Most flights they will lock it to the third level and below.
As I noted above, I have seen this too ... for me it was flying YYZ-BOM, controls were locked. Both my experience and yours were on ultra long-hauls, where there are 12+ hours of flying and a large number of time zone changes to adjust to - and you can make a case that the crew are try to respect the number of people who will be sleeping.
My hunch (backed up by a healthy number of flights) is that the window controls are unlikely to be locked on a shorter, daytime flight (the OP was asking about FRA-YYZ). There's absolutely no guarantees, the crew do have the ability to lock the controls - but on that flight in particular, I would not expect that they will lock things down.