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Open/Closed Window Blinds on Flights?

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    #92
    billy few mates
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭billy few mates


    Mebuntu wrote: »
    1. It's not a trivial matter at all to those it affects.

    2. As we have just heard there is only Ryanair out of Dublin who don't recline.

    1. Air rage isn't a trivial matter, somebody reclining the seat they've paid for is a trivial matter. If you're likely to get upset by someone doing this then maybe flyings not for you.

    2. Tells you all you need to know.


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    #93
    Spanish Eyes
    Registered Users Posts: 15,953 ✭✭✭✭Spanish Eyes


    Still not sure why crew insist on window blinds being down in daylight!


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    #94
    GreeBo
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    I get the distinct feeling that all the posters who would feel the need to "challenge" the cabin crew are the same sort of people who get offended very easily and often find themselves uttering the phrase "I want to speak to your supervisor" when out and about.

    Its a window, to a view that 95% of the time is an image of the top of clouds. You are a grown up, you'll get over it if you don't get to take another epic photo out of a ****ty double glazed plastic window.


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    #95
    Mebuntu
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    GreeBo wrote: »
    I get the distinct feeling that all the posters who would feel the need to "challenge" the cabin crew are the same sort of people who get offended very easily and often find themselves uttering the phrase "I want to speak to your supervisor" when out and about.
    Well, your "distinct feeling" in my case is wrong. I'm very laid back. Feel free to oppose my opinion but don't try to put a label on my character!


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    #96
    Hotblack Desiato
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is just another way in which flying is becoming more and more of a chore. We have those who don’t want the reclining seat function used, we have those who don’t want you to use the window to look out of !!! What next ?!

    What's next is "Well if you wanted to use the toilet you should have booked an aisle seat!"

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #97
    Locker10a
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Deleted User wrote: »
    This is just another way in which flying is becoming more and more of a chore. We have those who don’t want the reclining seat function used, we have those who don’t want you to use the window to look out of !!! What next ?!

    What's next is "Well if you wanted to use the toilet you should have booked an aisle seat!"
    This attitude is already definitely a thing I’ve personally experienced it


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    #98
    plodder
    Registered Users Posts: 7,222 ✭✭✭plodder


    Locker10a wrote: »
    This attitude is already definitely a thing I’ve personally experienced it
    Did you do a Gerard Depardieu in response?


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    #99
    Locker10a
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    plodder wrote: »
    Locker10a wrote: »
    This attitude is already definitely a thing I’ve personally experienced it
    Did you do a Gerard Depardieu in response?
    No sadly I seem to be to hard wired with manners to be impolite. I’ve experienced it twice topped off sighs and passive aggressive attitude


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    #100
    [Deleted User]
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    Mebuntu wrote: »
    Well, your "distinct feeling" in my case is wrong. I'm very laid back. Feel free to oppose my opinion but don't try to put a label on my character!

    I’m simply going to repost Mebuntus reply as my reply. I can’t put it any better without breaking forum rules.


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    #101
    cnocbui
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    DOCARCH wrote: »
    I have to say that I have never reclined my seat on aircraft on any flight I have taken in my life, out of respect for the person behind me as I do not like it when the seat in front of me is reclined!

    In the same vein, in the past, when I have had a window seat on the sunny side of the aircraft with the sun beaming in, I have closed my blind....given up my view....when I felt it was causing discomfort to other passengers around me/sitting near me.

    Maybe I am a too conscientious passenger!

    You would be appalled at how many people, myself included, who recline seats to enable sleep on 23 - 26 hr slogs from Europe to Australia/NZ, and vice versa.


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    #102
    Cinderella3
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    I reciently flew with American Airlines from Dublin to Philadelphia , same thing window blinds down throughout th entire flight . It was awful ...so disorientating ! I love looking out the window during a flight


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    #103
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,707 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Locker10a wrote: »
    This attitude is already definitely a thing I’ve personally experienced it

    Gee whiz (:pac:)

    I thought I was choosing something too outrageous to be true.

    It seems that human decency is out the window (if aircraft windows opened!)

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #104
    L1011
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    Ah, 2010/11, when a celeb of sorts would whip it out on a flight to Ireland every few months :pac:


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    #105
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users Posts: 34,707 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    L1011 wrote: »
    Ah, 2010/11, when a celeb of sorts would whip it out on a flight to Ireland every few months :pac:

    I wonder does yer man get many requests for this :o

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

    Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.



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    #106
    Dial Hard
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    Just back from a trip that involved Dublin-Atlanta-Orlando, Orlando-Cancun, Cancun-JFK-Dublin flights, all Delta and can confirm that the blinds were down on all daytime legs. I have to say, I found it very discombobulating - found myself nodding off at 1pm on a westbound flight and I'm not a napper.

    In other news, I will never fly Delta again. Outbound trip was fine. On the way home, I have never been subjected to so many fcuk ups by a single organisation in my entire life. I'll post about them later, when I regain the will to live.


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    #107
    LJ3103
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    H3llR4iser wrote: »

    On the trip back, from Dulles, on a 757-200 (note - single aisle on a transatlantic flight isn't a great idea, but I digress) it was exactly the same - no "blinds down nazis". It was a "red-eye" flight as the Americans call them, and the sight of the sunrise was as we flew towards it was quite something.

    g...


    Flying this route in a few weeks time, UA127 & UA126, Does the 757 -200s that United use have IFE in the back of the headrests on this route

    Thanks


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    #108
    billy few mates
    Registered Users Posts: 6,920 ✭✭✭billy few mates


    LJ3103 wrote: »
    Flying this route in a few weeks time, UA127 & UA126, Does the 757 -200s that United use have IFE in the back of the headrests on this route

    Thanks
    Yes


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    #109
    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    LJ3103 wrote: »
    Flying this route in a few weeks time, UA127 & UA126, Does the 757 -200s that United use have IFE in the back of the headrests on this route

    Thanks

    No IFE on any of the (4) UA flights I was on recently!

    You use your own phone/iPad and download UA app. Wifi is free on board, just to access the UA app., where there are movies, programs, music, etc. You can also pay for wifi for full internet access.

    Wifi was a bit dodgy on 2 of my 4 flights so make sure to download some stuff from Netflix or other source for back up!


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    #110
    LJ3103
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭LJ3103


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    No IFE on any of the (4) UA flights I was on recently!

    You use your own phone/iPad and download UA app. Wifi is free on board, just to access the UA app., where there are movies, programs, music, etc. You can also pay for wifi for full internet access.

    Wifi was a bit dodgy on 2 of my 4 flights so make sure to download some stuff from Netflix or other source for back up!

    Where any of these flights on the DUB - IAD route


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    DOCARCH
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 17,918 Mod ✭✭✭✭DOCARCH


    LJ3103 wrote: »
    Where any of these flights on the DUB - IAD route

    No....DUB - EWR.


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    #112
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭VG31


    DOCARCH wrote: »
    No....DUB - EWR.

    United use their domestic 777s on the DUB–EWR route which don't have IFE. However on the DUB–IAD route they use their international 757s which do have IFE screens at each seat.


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    #113
    trellheim
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    United use their domestic 777s on the DUB–EWR route which don't have IFE
    I have flown this route and it had IFE on the 777 I was on, anyway.d


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    #114
    VG31
    Registered Users Posts: 3,434 ✭✭✭VG31


    trellheim wrote: »
    I have flown this route and it had IFE on the 777 I was on, anyway.d

    They changed to the domestic 777s recently enough (a year or so maybe).


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