Cathay pacific window blinds enforced closed

[alexm]

I’ve had this experience on a business class flight with them but just wondering if anyone knows whether they enforce this closed blinds rule on day flights in economy? Will rethink an upcoming booking if so
Many thanks

[BJ]

I suspect they can do what they like but I detest dim cabins when it is daylight outside regardless of local time at orgin and destination. I can sleep and watch IFE in natural ligbt and am sure others can too so I don’t see any need to enforce dim cabins.

[masaccio]

I think the pattern of drink, food, turn off the lights is engrained into airlines. A cynic would say it’s to calm down the passengers when half the crew is asleep.

LIM-MAD we went straight to sleep as it was 2am UK time and skipped the meal service. We woke 4-5 hours before landing to a dark cabin despite it being late morning UK time and turned our lights on.

They hand out eye shades in the amenity kit and the IFE is distractingly bright in a dark cabin so I never feel bad about using the light when I want to be awake.

[meta]

You do know that you can turn off IFE screen entirely. I always do that before going to sleep. These days on red-eye’s I turn it off straight after safety video and turn it only for a flight map only when I wake up before landing.

[yonasl]

I had that on a CX flight HK to London. It was technically a day flight so you had to stay awake for the 12 hrs landing late so you could go sleep at yours. Unfortunately I didn’t get a window seat in Y and the whole cabin was pitch black the whole flight.