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I know that cabin temperature can be a lottery, but the contrast during two recent BA flights (LHR-HK and SIN-LHR) was extraordinary!
Outbound LHR-HK. Previous experience suggested we’d have a warm flight, so we were fairly lightly dressed in jeans and hoodies. The cabin was absolutely freezing. Our WTP blankets (which I very much like) didn’t help much. Luckily there were empty seats and we (and others) redistributed the spare blankets, but my Reynaud’s kicked in and my fingers and toes went white.
Inbound SIN-LHR. Not to be caught out again, we layered up – and some. Naturally, it was hot as Hades for the entire flight and despite discarding several of said layers, I didn’t need my blanket.
Anyone else had extreme cabin climates recently?
Do you know which aircraft you were on for both segments?
Pretty sure it was a 787-9 to HK, definitely a 777-300 on the inbound from SIN. Does that explain it?
Pretty sure it was a 787-9 to HK, definitely a 777-300 on the inbound from SIN. Does that explain it?
Only partially, would help to explain the cabin pressure/humidity more than then temperature. I’m sure someone else knows better than me but I think temperature is controlled by the crew, you can only make requests to ask them to increase/decrease but they can easily ignore these as they can just claim other passengers want it to the opposite of what you want. Personally I generally find BA flights pretty warm in my experience but then I prefer colder environments (specially for sleeping) as you can layer up if necessary
I was on a LGW-CUN flight a couple of weeks ago. Daytime flight on the way out and the cabin felt very cold for the entire flight, I can’t remember being on a flight that cold before. The over night return flight was a fairly comfortable temperature. My next long haul is to the Maldives, will be packing thermals and a woolly hat for the flight just in case!
Do keep up. The Omnipotent Minds at BA marketing & customer engagement have been clear on this. Their data leaves no doubt that we asked for the cabin to be subzero. Apart from the times our feedback overwhelmingly told them we don’t want to sleep as we want it to be hotter than the surface of the sun.
This observation will of course be immediately challenged now I’m making it but on eastbound long haul flights I find cabins Normal-Cool and the returns blisteringly hot. But that’s just my take. Others may vary
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