Why do people think it's ok to put your window shade down on the plane?

[Anonymous]

Some of us get a migraine from the bright light. It is a trigger. Would you prefer that I vomit on your lap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us get a migraine from the bright light. It is a trigger. Would you prefer that I vomit on your lap?

I’d prefer you pick the window.

Vomit away. I won’t care.

-stomach of steel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter gets motion sickness with the window shade up. Would you rather she be vomiting a few seats away?

You can and should get her medicine for that. Stop making your child suffer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of us get a migraine from the bright light. It is a trigger. Would you prefer that I vomit on your lap?

I feel confident that you have other ways of dealing with your migraines than commandeering the window shade. How do you deal with bright light every day?

[Anonymous]

Honestly? Because what you want isn’t important to me. My needs and desires are more important than yours. It really is that simple. I will do what I want with the shade and you don’t get to have an opinion about it, much less express it.

[Anonymous]

I always put it down. If anyone besides a child who wants to see the view or a crew member asks me to put it up, I will refuse. Have a nice day!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with everyone that the person seated in the window seat has the ultimate say here. But, as someone who prefers the window seat, I would certainly entertain a polite request from someone else in the row to keep the shade up and would accommodate it unless I had some particular reason to want the shade lowered. So, maybe try asking nicely, but be prepared for the person to say no?

I’m a really nervous flyer, and I find it helps to have the window up. I try to get a window seat, but on the occasions I can’t, I normally do exactly this. I usually ask while the shade is still up (so they don’t have to change anything), acknowledge it’s just a request and I completely understand if they have a different preference. I’ve never had anyone refuse. On the occasions I’m in a center section, there’s normally at least one open window in view, which is good enough for me!

What possible difference does it make? That is so illogical.

[Anonymous]

My child and I typically occupy the middle and window seat. I love the little power kick that I get by being the shade controller.

Bwaaahhhaaahhaaa

[Anonymous]

Window up people are absolutely, positively the stupidest animals on the planet.

Do you friggin realize how high up you are in the atmosphere? How much more intense the sun's rays are at those altitudes? The reason you close the shades, idiots, is because not only a) can it be hot AF, b) it is blinding as hell for everyone around you during a flight.

Shades up during take off and landing? Fine. All other times, 100% closed. I can't believe how stupid some travelers are who leave the shades up when your 10s of thousands of feet high in the air and the temperature is rising because of how intense the sun's rays are they are coming in . Stupid dumb people who do that should be thrown outta the damn plane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an aisle passenger, but this summer the flight attendants on our daytime flight to London requested all the window shades be closed, presumably for the sake of people watching movies or sleeping. It made for a very dark flight, but I guess we did watch a lot of the inflight entertainment (didn't feel like sleeping at 8:30 AM).

This the way a normal flight should work. Shades should always be closed for the bulk of the flihjt because it can raise the temperature a ton and it is very intense in peoles' eyes. It also ruins your ability to watch the TV screens in the seats. The fact that so many people in this thread do not know the basics of flying is shocking.

Close the damn shade. It's a basic rule of flying.

[Anonymous]

I always book the window seat but am very sun sensitive so I book it and close the window as soon as possible. And you can’t stop me OP 😈

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an aisle passenger, but this summer the flight attendants on our daytime flight to London requested all the window shades be closed, presumably for the sake of people watching movies or sleeping. It made for a very dark flight, but I guess we did watch a lot of the inflight entertainment (didn't feel like sleeping at 8:30 AM).

This the way a normal flight should work. Shades should always be closed for the bulk of the flihjt because it can raise the temperature a ton and it is very intense in peoles' eyes. It also ruins your ability to watch the TV screens in the seats. The fact that so many people in this thread do not know the basics of flying is shocking.

Close the damn shade. It's a basic rule of flying.

Agreed. It’s also extremely high levels of UV rays. Bad all around and smart people know that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an aisle passenger, but this summer the flight attendants on our daytime flight to London requested all the window shades be closed, presumably for the sake of people watching movies or sleeping. It made for a very dark flight, but I guess we did watch a lot of the inflight entertainment (didn't feel like sleeping at 8:30 AM).

This the way a normal flight should work. Shades should always be closed for the bulk of the flihjt because it can raise the temperature a ton and it is very intense in peoles' eyes. It also ruins your ability to watch the TV screens in the seats. The fact that so many people in this thread do not know the basics of flying is shocking.

Close the damn shade. It's a basic rule of flying.

Agreed. It’s also extremely high levels of UV rays. Bad all around and smart people know that

Exactly. The sun can literally blind you if you climb mount Everest due to much higher intensity of UV rays at that altitude. Your are way higher than that on a flight. Windows should be closed at cruising altitude, always.

The flight attendants almost always require people to close the shades during the bulk of the flight on virtually every single long haul international flight I've ever been on.

The one time a guy in the row in front had his share open for too long and the temperature must have risen by 20 degrees instantly, and people were sweating even with full blast cabin cooling. The flight attendant made him close it.

Shades should always be down, nimrods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Window up people are absolutely, positively the stupidest animals on the planet.

Do you friggin realize how high up you are in the atmosphere? How much more intense the sun's rays are at those altitudes? The reason you close the shades, idiots, is because not only a) can it be hot AF, b) it is blinding as hell for everyone around you during a flight.

Shades up during take off and landing? Fine. All other times, 100% closed. I can't believe how stupid some travelers are who leave the shades up when your 10s of thousands of feet high in the air and the temperature is rising because of how intense the sun's rays are they are coming in . Stupid dumb people who do that should be thrown outta the damn plane.

You sound like you have weird anger and control issues. If someone likes to look out of the window why do you care? And secondly not all flights take place when the sun is beaming directly into the windows. Ever hear of evening flights? Having superiority complex over liking the shades down is not some sort of flex.

[Anonymous]

...because it's fine to close the windows? And it's good to block the UV rays?

I mean yeah if you are landing or taking off or flying over the Matterhorn, sure, put up the shade. But cruising over clouds? It's fine to put up the shades and many would argue advisable.

Also if you are aisle, you get the benefit of being on the aisle. Window gets the benefit of being next to window. middle gets screwed, granted.