Cabin temperature

[JohnPhelan]

BA has a tendency to keep the cabin a little too warm. At least if it's cold, you can cover yourself with the blanket. If it's too hot, there's not much you can do ........

 

[pauly7]

BA has a tendency to keep the cabin a little too warm. At least if it's cold, you can cover yourself with the blanket. If it's too hot, there's not much you can do ........

BA have NOTHING on Etihad.

I've almost boiled to death on all my EY flights!

 

[malmacdowall]

BA have NOTHING on Etihad.

I've almost boiled to death on all my EY flights!

That's because they have to get you "up to temperature " before landing in Abu Dhabi....

 

[RooFlyer]

I too prefer cool 21 would be the best.
Have been in cabins when hot and there is nothing you can do except feel ill, hot and bothered.

Well, you can ask the cabin crew to check the temperature. I usually ask something like "I wonder if anyone else is commenting that the cabin s a bit warm?" . This newly always results in them checking the temperature, and usually they report that yes, it was a bit high and they have re-set it.

Maybe they are just telling me what I want to hear, but often I can tell the difference in a short while.

Why it isn't auto regulated I don't know. But like I said up thread, I suspect that the crew like it warmer than the pax do and that may have something to do with it. Have stuck hot long haul cabins on virtually every airline I have flown.

With everyone here saying they like cooler, not warm, I might be a bit emboldened to ask earlier in future.

 

[blu]

Japan Airlines often has 28 degrees and overnight it's like a sauna.

 

[boomy]

Japan Airlines often has 28 degrees and overnight it's like a sauna.

28 degrees sounds way too hot. I would probably have to drink a lot of cold sake to keep cool

 

[JohnK]

28 degrees sounds way too hot. I would probably have to drink a lot of cold sake to keep cool

It is all relative.

The Thais wear jackets/cardigans when it gets down to 25 degrees.

Personally I do not think 28 degrees is too hot. It is comfortable.

 

[marki]

Well, you can ask the cabin crew to check the temperature. I usually ask something like "I wonder if anyone else is commenting that the .......

With everyone here saying they like cooler, not warm, I might be a bit emboldened to ask earlier in future.

These days in economy they ignore you mostly ! it's hard to say excuse me as they rush past. Sometimes to hard ....but I will try and use your opening gambit.

The attendant did stop and ask me once if it was too hot as I was visibly sweating even in the low humidity environment.

 

[spudwa]

These days in economy they ignore you mostly ! it's hard to say excuse me as they rush past. Sometimes to hard ....but I will try and use your opening gambit.

The attendant did stop and ask me once if it was too hot as I was visibly sweating even in the low humidity environment.

Once in cattle class it got so warm people had their kids bare chested. On another flight the FA told me it was controlled from the pointy end so us in cattle class got what they liked. I used this to good effect on my first F flight with Thai. After consulting Mrs spudwa and two other pax I asked for the temp to be reduced and it was done immediately. Even the Dom couldn't reduce my temp ;-)

 

[RooFlyer]

It is all relative.

The Thais wear jackets/cardigans when it gets down to 25 degrees.

Personally I do not think 28 degrees is too hot. It is comfortable.

Sure. the Inuit are pretty chirpy when its minus 20. I've been out in shorts and T shirt when its minus 35 in northern Quebec.

"It's all relative", but not sure how relevant it is to sitting in a tin can trying to get to sleep.

Do you really think its comfortable at 28 degrees when you are trying to sleep in a low humidity airplane? Or are you recalling sitting on the beach at coughet with he locals rugged up in their jackets?

 

[JohnK]

"It's all relative", but not sure how relevant it is to sitting in a tin can trying to get to sleep.

Do you really think its comfortable at 28 degrees when you are trying to sleep in a low humidity airplane? Or are you recalling sitting on the beach at coughet with he locals rugged up in their jackets?

Again all I can say it is all relevant.

If I am tired and sleepy I will fall asleep and the temperature does not play a role. In fact I would rather it be on the warm side than wake up with sniffles. Or a sore throat. Or sore ribs.

As I said personally I find 28 degrees comfortable. On the other hand 23 degrees with a draft is cold.

Off topic slightly but there is a reason why I hardly ever get cold/sniffles/flu and most at work get it regularly. It has nothing to do with luck. It has nothing to do with the flu shot either as it is offered to anyone interested at work. It is because my body temperature is fairly constant and on the warm side. I don't sit in airconditioning all day in only a t-shirt.

 

[RooFlyer]

Again all I can say it is all relevant.

If I am tired and sleepy I will fall asleep and the temperature does not play a role. In fact I would rather it be on the warm side than wake up with sniffles. Or a sore throat. Or sore ribs.

As I said personally I find 28 degrees comfortable. On the other hand 23 degrees with a draft is cold.

Off topic slightly but there is a reason why I hardly ever get cold/sniffles/flu and most at work get it regularly. It has nothing to do with luck. It has nothing to do with the flu shot either as it is offered to anyone interested at work. It is because my body temperature is fairly constant and on the warm side. I don't sit in airconditioning all day in only a t-shirt.

Rats. I didn't spot the leg pull before. I can see now that having ones body temperature a few degrees above about 37 would make for a more comfortable journey, although in some people that would be a Fever

 

[marki]

Again all I can say it is all relevant.

If I am tired and sleepy I will fall asleep and the temperature does not play a role. In fact I would rather it be on the warm side than wake up with sniffles. Or a sore throat. Or sore ribs.

As I said personally I find 28 degrees comfortable. On the other hand 23 degrees with a draft is cold.

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so your the one that believes in drafts!
This what most people think but truth is as you will see the actual exchange of air decreased the particulate concentration of viruses. Not increases them. Open air schools case in point the kids don't get sick! Or as sick as those in enclosed spaces with no drafts. Where some bodies cough will spread easy.

 

[haydensydney]

I prefer a cooler cabin generally - had some shockingly hot flights on both Asiana and Etihad... didn't help by wearing jeans and drinking myself a new asshole lol

 

[Simo]

I like a cool cabin but not cooler than 22deg.

Also cooler during day time travel than night time travel.

 

[cosi]

Last year, boarding a JAL from HKG to HND, it was over 30's in HK and all the window shades were closed to keep the heat out, many Japanese passengers were already under blankets.

Personally, I have seen improvements in the JAL cabin temp and the crew accommodating to make any adjustments; but I always carry a T-shirt in my hand luggage to use if the temp is too hot.

 

[JohnK]

so your the one that believes in drafts!

I certainly do. When I am sitting in the office during summer with just shirt on and at the end of the day my ribs are killing me it isn't because they have been aggravated by my typing.

Off topic but back in 1994 I stood in a draft in the middle of a hot day in Venice coming down from the top of the building and I had a cold for the next 4-5 days.

 

[Plutonus]

But cold temperature can't actually cause the common cold/flu?

 

[marki]

I certainly do. When......

Off topic but back in 1994 I stood in a draft in the middle of a hot day in Venice coming down from the top of the building and I had a cold for the next 4-5 days.

If to prove a point may I say in Paris after climbing up and down the Eiffel Tower in winter with minus temperatures and a wind chill factor off the scale I had no cold what so ever for the next 4-5 days and even longer after that. There are no virus particles to pick up. Yes bacterial infection is possible but it did not happen.

 

[JohnK]

But cold temperature can't actually cause the common cold/flu?

Being cold in the middle of winter cant either? How about hot and cold in middle of summer? So you end up with pneumonia instead?

Please explain to me my condition when I go to sleep alone with the aircon on all night and I wake up with sniffles and a sore throat that lasts for days? Common cold? Flu? Or something totally unrelated and a figment of my imagination?