Gh123 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Posted (5 years 12 months 4 days ago) and read 5382 times:
I have just returned from a trip to Buenos Aires and I was booked on Delta, from Atlanta.
So after the meal service has been served, why do they wait so long (for about an hour or so) to dim the lights in the cabin so people can 'kick back' and have a sleep.
DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 3, posted (5 years 12 months 4 days ago) and read 5322 times:
Quoting Gh123 (Reply 2): If you actually read the thread starter - I said AFTER!
Clean up, duty free, drinks for other customers, handing out customs forms, etc...It's hard to please very picayune people such as yourself. I assure you, there was no conspiracy involved to rob you of sleep.
Rafflesking From Singapore, joined Mar 2007, 307 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 5097 times:
Having a bad day there, DL Widget Head?
Gh123 - I can sympathize - I've noticed this on DL and US transatlantic flights. I frequently travel SQ and they shut off the lights shortly after meal service. Granted they keep duty free open for a much longer time period and the ratio of attendants to passengers in biz is much higher so clean-up is in a snap.
DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 5, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 5054 times:
Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19700 posts, RR: 56 Reply 6, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 5015 times:
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 3): Clean up, duty free, drinks for other customers, handing out customs forms, etc...
Gh123, were any of these things going on? And do you mean an hour after dinner was served, or an hour after dinner had been cleaned up? And were the lights on full, or did they have them on at a lower level?
Not really - I'd wonder about it myself on an overnight flight. People tend to want to sleep on those. If there was something that the crew was doing, then no problem. But if not, then the lights really should go off.
-Mir
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DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 8, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 22 hours ago) and read 4992 times:
Quoting Mir (Reply 6): If there was something that the crew was doing, then no problem. But if not, then the lights really should go off.
Gee, no kidding...is that what's supposed to happen on a night flight? OBVIOUSLY, the crew was still doing something that REQUIRED the lights to be on. They know full well that everyone wants to sleep on long haul night flights and it's just about their top priority to get the lights off ASAP.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 9, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 19 hours ago) and read 4855 times:
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 5): ...I think it's a rather nit picky comment that I felt like addressing.
I don't think it's nit-picky at all. On a night flight, the lights should be out and customers instructed to use their individual reading lights if they need lighting. It's irritating when the flight attendants fail to dim the cabin lights fully.
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DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 11, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 4756 times:
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 9): On a night flight, the lights should be out and customers instructed to use their individual reading lights if they need lighting. It's irritating when the flight attendants fail to dim the cabin lights fully.
Do you expect the F/A's on a long haul night flight to conduct all of their duties in the pitch dark?? NOBODY is saying that at some point the lights shouldn't be dimmed, but certainly, if not for safety reasons alone, this should be done at the conclusion the main part of the F/A's service duties. Clearly, this was done by the DL crews as indicated in the original posting--just not as quickly as HE wanted it to be done, regardless of what the crew was involved with. Sometimes I wish I could orchestrate conditions so that I could have a peaceful, quiet, pitch dark place in which to sleep on a flight whenever I wanted to, but alas, when you're on a flight (not in a hotel room) with 200 people, one's time schedule for sleeping does not always mesh up with what's taking place in the cabin around one, especially from a crew's perspective. I would have thought you of all people could understand this since you've worked for sooo many airlines.
Whappeh From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1560 posts, RR: 2 Reply 12, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 17 hours ago) and read 4709 times:
Don't feel bad Widget Head, you aren't the only thing that thinks that the this is generally just a bit too absurd and nitpicky.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 13, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4669 times:
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 11): Do you expect the F/A's on a long haul night flight to conduct all of their duties in the pitch dark??
Funny - it has been my experience that most F/A's do PRECISELY that without difficulty. Any reason you've got your panties in a bunch over this though? You're acting like someone ran over your dog.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem - government IS the problem." - Ronald Reagan
DL Widget Head From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 2039 posts, RR: 5 Reply 14, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4640 times:
Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 13): Funny - it has been my experience that most F/A's do PRECISELY that without difficulty
WRONG...crews will conduct their primary services with light. That's what we're talking about here, not the odd drink request, etc. My responses to this thread have been aimed at the petty, frivolous, drivel posted by you and other prima donas regarding lights not being dimmed when the thread starter thought that they should be. Frankly, if it had been a general question thrown out there, I mightn't have been inclined to post but, the phrase "I was not impressed" has negative implications about our fine crew, which in my opinion, are simply a result of the poster's impatience and ignorance as to what the crew was doing.
Delta fly boy From Japan, joined Oct 2000, 242 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4630 times:
The only one who is acting as if someone ran over his dog is the thread starter. I mean, c'mon, do people really have nothing better to do than to rant and comlpain about something so stupid as to how fast the crews dim the cabin lights. I can maybe understand if they left the lights on the entire flight... but because it took an hour... okay, so in a perfect world the lights would have been turned down the second you finished your meal... but then I'm sure we would have someone writting a thread who was in the back of the aircraft, who had the lights dimmed while they were still finishing up their meal. I rarely post on this site anymore, because it truly amazes me how infintile some of the people on here get. Anyway, hope you really enjoyed EZE, and had a great trip. That's what you should be focusing on, not how long the cabing lights were left on.
EA CO AS From United States of America, joined Nov 2001, 12559 posts, RR: 64 Reply 16, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 16 hours ago) and read 4604 times:
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 14): I mightn't have been inclined to post but, the phrase "I was not impressed" has negative implications about our fine crew, which in my opinion, are simply a result of the poster's impatience and ignorance as to what the crew was doing.
Are you for real? You let THAT bug you? Wow....just....wow. If that's truly your issue, take it up with the initial poster then and stop being aggressive with others who opine, like myself.
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 14): Quoting EA CO AS (Reply 13):
Funny - it has been my experience that most F/A's do PRECISELY that without difficulty
WRONG...crews will conduct their primary services with light.
Tell that to the DL crew who served me and my wife on an ATL-PHX night flight - because they didn't have the cabin lights on at all; just worked by the light from the video monitors and the personal overhead reading lights in the various PSUs.
I've been flying all my life and it's rare that I've seen a crew conduct a beverage or even a full meal service on night flights with the cabin lights slightly dimmed. It has been my experience that they're usually off completely.
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem - government IS the problem." - Ronald Reagan
Mir From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 19700 posts, RR: 56 Reply 17, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 4580 times:
Quoting DL Widget Head (Reply 14): the phrase "I was not impressed" has negative implications about our fine crew,
Perhaps your "fine crew" was off that night. These things happen, it wouldn't be the end of the world, and if I were in the OP's position it wouldn't affect my decision whether or not to choose DL for a trip in the future. But to pretend that all of DL's crews are flawless, and that any objection must be the fault of the passenger, is just silly. And, to be perfectly honest, that kind of attitude reflects rather badly on the airline, and WOULD affect my decision to choose DL over another carrier.
-Mir
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Rwy04LGA From United States of America, joined Jul 2005, 2145 posts, RR: 7 Reply 19, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 15 hours ago) and read 4551 times:
I was on the ATL-EZE-ATL flight in October and on the ATL-GRU-ATL flight in August and never noticed the situation you described. Perhaps a dark bag placed over the head (and drawn tight at the neck) would solve the problem...ours, not yours.
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Whappeh From United States of America, joined Mar 2006, 1560 posts, RR: 2 Reply 21, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 4434 times:
Quoting Gh123 (Reply 20): Well, I was tired and I wanted to sleep - like many of the other passengers on the plane.
You call it nit picky? Go ahead, but remember: It's the little things that make the big difference.
I call it nit picky because its not that hard to fall asleep with lights on, especially cabin lights in an aircraft. Problem with too many on this website is you expect 5 star service, all the time and get upset when its not provided. The noises and lights of the cabin bother you, then you must not live in a large city in which things are always going on. Close your eyes, face the wall if you have a window seat and just zone out.
I say "little things" make the biggest difference. Little things like remembering that you're flying for what was assumably the cheapest ticket between point A and B. They gave you drink and meal service, which you probably thought was entirely sub-par, and then want the lights out once they've move past your row because now that you've eaten you're ready to go down. Give me a break. A 2 dollar mask to cover your eyes would of done wonders. I recommend you buy one next time you fly; or fly in First-class. They still give them away up there.
Zenarcade From Canada, joined Nov 2006, 85 posts, RR: 0 Reply 23, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 4369 times:
Quoting 777STL (Reply 18): It's rather interesting that the only ones disagreeing with and bashing the original poster are the DL fanboys. Why am I not surprised?
DL employees at that.
You guys are all arguing like pre-schoolers.
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Gh123 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 24, posted (5 years 12 months 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 4359 times:
Quoting Whappeh (Reply 21): I say "little things" make the biggest difference. Little things like remembering that you're flying for what was assumably the cheapest ticket between point A and B. They gave you drink and meal service, which you probably thought was entirely sub-par, and then want the lights out once they've move past your row because now that you've eaten you're ready to go down. Give me a break. A 2 dollar mask to cover your eyes would of done wonders. I recommend you buy one next time you fly; or fly in First-class. They still give them away up there
You need to read before you post. I had told you that they had FINISHED their services.
25 Airbazar: You don't need full lights to do any of that. IIRC, SQ dimms the lights through dinner even. I've never flown a DL red-eye, I usually fly BA or LH, a
26 Aerokiwi: Wow! Surprising response from the DL people, who I assume are employees. If so, then a sad reflection on the airline. Dimming the lights is very helpf
27 Whappeh: I still take this with a grain of salt. Unless you were sitting in the last row, watching everything (Including clean up of the galley, etc). then I
29 Pacifique75: On the airline I work for, cabin lights are not dimmed until duty free sales are finished in all cabins. So if you are in business class you may find
30 ANCFlyer: This thread is a bitchfest . . . It's done.
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