The temperature inside aircraft cabins is something we discuss regularly here at OMAAT. Ben is a massive fan of individual air nozzles at each seat, as airlines (especially Asian airlines), tend to keep their cabins extremely warm, meaning the blanket they give you is completely pointless.
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"...made the mistake of wearing tight jeans on board."
I suspect you're going to get a lot of guys wanting to see a pic of said tight jeans.
If only the holier-than-thou commentators that pop up in every article about someone wearing shorts proclaiming their superiority for always wearing pants because it's "proper" could be caught in one of these situations
Iberia did the same thing when I flew from Portugal back to JFK two years ago in June. There was no ventilation at all and even most of the lights weren't operational during boarding; it also smelled really badly since everybody was sweating. I thought something was broken but everything worked perfectly fine once they started the engines. As soon as they landed they turned everything off again.
LOL if you read through Asian Travel Blogs, you will see a lot of Asians are complaining that US airlines are keeping cabin too cold lol
( PEK T3 was tooooooooooo hot during the summer)
Exactly. Americans have different perception for heat. On a cold October morning you can see people with shorts or flip flops. Ican only shake the head. So the complaints from Americans about heat
take with a grain of salt.
I worked for SkyWest in Palm Springs for a few years and worked ramp or CS and boarded flights with temp routinely over 115F. Never had an issue. Mainline went to a jetway equipped gate that had a/c we could attach to the aircraft in addition to onboard APU.
With Allegiant at Gateway in Phoenix, even if no a/c provided by gates there should be portable ground air.
Terrible to subject folks to Rhodes conditions. Once you’re dehydrated and the first signs of heat exhaustion hit, it’s a lot of work to recover.
A good deal of those might have been on md-80s which are on the way out, which really struggle with cooling on APU only in the summer in the hotter parts of American, even when everything is working right. Not a unique situation (although their customer service situation, um, is).
I think the blinds down during daytime is also because so many people nowadays live sleep-deprived lives and a flight seems like a good opportunity to catch up on sleep.
Most people do seem to sleep, at least up front on flat seats.
I sleep fully at home, and read on daytime flights, when I much prefer daylight (less strain on the eyes)
@ Sean
Yes, indeed.
Arguably, the author's declaration that they won't ever fly Allegiant in part for fear of a hot cabin is questionable.
Allegiant are claiming that they will have retired all of their MD-80 series aircraft by late 2018 in favour of the Airbus 320 series.
To note that the average age of the MD-80 series fleet is almost 30 years, whereas their Airbus fleet sits around 12 - 13 years.
Cooling an aircraft on the tarmac (by on aircraft APU and external units) is a different challenge to under engine power, so the intro to this article is somewhat misplaced, although makes the point that passengers can get uncomfortable in a hot cabin.
A fligt with Ryanair from GOT - STN in August is something i will never do again (or fly with them EVER). When we arrived at Stansted they told us that we had to wait on the taxiway (our gate hade a plane with a problem) and the temp was very hot and with two kids is nothing i wish for anyone, we had to wait for 30 min. After i felt like i had a shower to try to hold the kids in the seat.