AA142 JFK-LHR day flight shutters closed
Aug 28, 2017, 2:57 pm
#31
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Dallas
Programs: AA PLT/5MM; AS MVP GLD 75K; DL DM; EK SLV; HHonors DIAM; Marriott GLD
Posts: 4,092
I was on the BCN-ORD yesterday, and they also blocked un-darkening of the windows, for 8 hours (of a 9.5 hour daylight flight!). Completely infuriating. I choose window seats in order to have a "functional" window experience. (By the way, on a 787 flight with BA, even when darkening the entire cabin, they let individuals take control of their own window).
Based on that, I will avoid AA 787s on daytime flights (which is a pity, because otherwise the plane is nice).
Based on that, I will avoid AA 787s on daytime flights (which is a pity, because otherwise the plane is nice).
Based on that, I will fly AA 787s on daytime flights (which is really great, because the plane is nice and has a darkened cabin).
Aug 28, 2017, 3:46 pm
#32
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA & UK -- AA EXP 3.5MM, Hyatt Diamond, SPG Plat, Avis President's Club
Posts: 6,411
Why are we skirting the real issue?
The plain fact is that no matter how the FA or a fellow passengers tells us to set the window, we want the _opposite_ setting.
The question is not "how to set a window". The real question is "what happens when people, who are beneath our lofty station in life, try to tell us what to do?".
(just kidding ... sort of)
The plain fact is that no matter how the FA or a fellow passengers tells us to set the window, we want the _opposite_ setting.
The question is not "how to set a window". The real question is "what happens when people, who are beneath our lofty station in life, try to tell us what to do?".
(just kidding ... sort of)
Aug 29, 2017, 1:17 am
#35
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: AKL
Programs: Permanent nobody on AA, UA, QF & NZ
Posts: 31
They can always tell the window passenger that he/she has no right to pass through their space (in the same way that the aisle and middle seat passengers apparently have no right to provide any input to the shade up/down decision), so the window passenger has to stay in the seat until the other passengers deem the window passenger worthy of intruding on their space. Any unauthorized intrusion will lead to the window passenger being restrained in his/her seat until landing. See how easy it gets when you decide that someone is the lone decider over everything that goes on in/at/around one's seat? 
Aug 29, 2017, 1:56 am
#36
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: DCA/IAD/WAS
Programs: MAR AMB, WOH Explorist, AA EXP, UA 2P
Posts: 2,138
Aug 29, 2017, 5:49 am
#37
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 1999
Location: ORD/MDW
Programs: BA/AA/AS/B6/WN/ UA/HH/MR and more like 'em but most felicitously & importantly MUCCI
Posts: 19,719
Sometimes FT is like watching reruns of '90s Seinfeld episodes... I know I've seen all this before, I can see all the plot twists and punch lines coming a mile off, but it's still good for one more laugh.
Aug 29, 2017, 6:18 am
#38
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: jfk area
Programs: AA platinum; 2MM AA, Delta Diamond, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,291
Please keep the shades open when the flight is entirely during the day. Its day time. Those who choose to sleep/nap/rest during the day can use the eye shades if needed. Following the sun helps minimize jet leg.
I understand closing the shades on Eastbound overnight flights where the plane may not want to be awake at (literally) the first crack of dawn in the new timezone.
I understand closing the shades on Eastbound overnight flights where the plane may not want to be awake at (literally) the first crack of dawn in the new timezone.
*If one lives in a city area, you never see the night sky as you do from 35,000 ft.
Aug 29, 2017, 8:10 am
#41
Suspended
Join Date: May 2017
Location: In the Swiss amoeba's head
Programs: Lowest level possible
Posts: 2,829
Aug 29, 2017, 10:46 am
#42
Join Date: Aug 2003
Programs: Bonvoy Amb; AA EXP
Posts: 1,136
Problem is, sometimes the sunbeam that provides light to the window seat also creates massive amounts of sun for other passengers. My favorite is when it reflects off a magazine or a watch and keeps beaming me in the face.
Also, there is not an LED in the world that you can watch in massive amounts of daylight.
Also, there is not an LED in the world that you can watch in massive amounts of daylight.
Aug 29, 2017, 11:09 am
#43
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: jfk area
Programs: AA platinum; 2MM AA, Delta Diamond, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 10,291
PS: On every EB flt about half the pax raise their shades in the last hour before arrival.
Aug 27, 2018, 10:45 am
#44
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: USA
Programs: AA-CK, Hyatt Globalist, Marriott Lifetime Titanium
Posts: 1,449
On AA's 787's the FA's always darken and lock the windows based on my experience, even on the daytime flight from ORD to LHR. I politely ask them to release mine to passenger control and they do. Not too long ago on a flight from CDG to ORD, the purser released the control and some other FA would redarken my window and lock it seemingly every 1/2 hour - quite comical by the end of the flight.
Aug 27, 2018, 10:52 am
#45
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: PHL
Programs: AA EXP, HH Diamond, Owner of 2,000 TWA shares
Posts: 812
On AA's 787's the FA's always darken and lock the windows based on my experience, even on the daytime flight from ORD to LHR. I politely ask them to release mine to passenger control and they do. Not too long ago on a flight from CDG to ORD, the purser released the control and some other FA would redarken my window and lock it seemingly every 1/2 hour - quite comical by the end of the flight.
Yeah, same thing. The windows are huge and yet they make you beg for access to them.