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Every recent flight I have been on included an announcement for everyone to close the shades! Maybe it was just for takeoff, but they never went up again

I'd rather look out the window than watch a movie.

I was on a long-haul flight on a 787 where the captain had control of the dimming of the windows and therefor I was not permitted to see out of the window all night. If the sun is low and on my side, I will show restraint, but I'm an open window flyer.

I always get a window seat and gaze out the window. I've seen amazing sights from the air: the Rocky Mountains in the USA and Canada, Greenland and Iceland, and the Northern Lights among them.

I look for other aircraft, cloud formations, boats, whales, islands, coastlines, mountain profiles, snowpacks, dust storms and In n’ Out locations.

👶

Keep 'em open. The electronic shades suck as they give everything a bluish hue.

Agree for domestic flights. For the long haul, transoceanic flights, though, leaving shades up when everyone is wanting to sleep is just rude.

The Atlantic continues to have reliably terrible thoughts. Excellent.

Or, and here's just a thought, if you're on a red eye, fuck off and keep your goddamn shades down?

I got a good picture of an offshore wind farm recently. Closing the shades during the day seems to be a recent trend and I don’t understand it

I just returned home after a cross country trip. In both directions, I sat next to someone who closed the shades. Imagine flying into Seattle on a perfect day, over the snow covered Cascades, views of Puget Sound and the Olympics. And Rainier! And having no interests in the views out the windows.

no

“For the life of me, I can’t understand why you wouldn’t get a window seat” - Jack Dangermond @ #ESRIUC ~2000

Ok but sun hot shade cool

An open window shade can give you views like this.

On an overnight to Dublin a couple of weeks ago, I kept sneaking the shade up to look at the full moon reflecting off the top of the clouds. It was gorgeous.

Yeah Iove doing that when I have the middle seat.

Fuck off

No. There’s nothing to see once you’re above the cloud line and people want to try to sleep to try to survive the tedium. Close that thing.

Tell that to everyone's arms and face

I always get the window seat so I have control over the shade.

I’m sensitive to light. I wear sunglasses but I prefer to control the shade and keep it down.

My partner prefers to sit in the window seat AND he always closes the shade unless instructed to open it by crew (EU carriers are the ones we've experienced that request from the most.) I would otherwise always have it open to see what's going on out there!

People with blue eyes would like a word.