Stan de SD wrote:
Ever hear of eye-shades or dark glasses?

Why in the hell should I have to impersonate Roy Orbison on an airline
flight?


This is actually a difficult question.

On a 12 hour flight that is overnight, it would be expected to see the
aircraft cabin in a "nighttime" setting so you don't have to have
eyeshades or be woken up to be asked to fill forms etc.

But on a 4 hour transcontinental flight that lands in daylight it isn't
as opbvious on whether it is wrth moving cabin into "nighttime" mode.
Consider you need probably 1 hour from takeoff until you can turn down
lights, and definitely 1 hours before landing. So in the end, you'd only
have 2 hours of darkness.

Personally, on such a flight, they should turn down the lights at
takeoff and leave them down until aircraft begins its descent to the
destination. Someone can always turn on the individual reading lights
if they wish to remain awake for the duration of the flight.