Cabin Temperatures?

[blackcat20]

I find most planes too hot, which is why I don't use the PJ tops provided and stick to my own tank top.

You actually need to be cooler to sleep rather than warmer anyway.

 

[AviatorInsight]

Most galleys are also not heated (for reasons unknown to me), so when the cabin crew are hiding away in the galleys they tend to heat up the cabin (if they can) or ask us to.

 

[jb747]

Remember too, that it's only an average temperature in a zone. I don't know how many temperature sensors there are per zone, but in any given cabin on an aircraft there will be quite disparate heating requirements. An average of 21ºC could easily have areas near the door in the teens, and others next to an air-conditioning duct in the mid twenties. Setting an average of 16º could well be extremely chilly for some....

 

[flyer89]

Remember too, that it's only an average temperature in a zone. I don't know how many temperature sensors there are per zone, but in any given cabin on an aircraft there will be quite disparate heating requirements. An average of 21ºC could easily have areas near the door in the teens, and others next to an air-conditioning duct in the mid twenties. Setting an average of 16º could well be extremely chilly for some....

Having been right down the back in the cheap seats on the 744 which I think is the largest zone it normally takes until cruise for things to cool down to a more comfortable temp.

 

[Mrmaxwell]

I remember when the Socceroos commissioned a QF flight during last years World Cup qualifiers to get back to SYD from SAP and part of the recovery was mainting certain cabin temps to keep players awake (warm) then making them sleep (cold). Certainly warmer cabin keeps me uncomfortably awake;

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer...s-lavish-midair-recovery-20171112-gzjh92.html

 

[The man with no name]

Yet it appears the new age "road warriors" of the air can't pack a jumper, or some light pants..

Flew F on 2 recent EK flights and would have been too hot if I’d had no clothes on at all. What do you suggest I pack ?

 

[bPeteb]

Anyone who travels without the clothing to adjust to some air temp differences shouldn't be travelling

Yet it appears the new age "road warriors" of the air can't pack a jumper, or some light pants.....

Oh juddles. We're not new age or road warriors. Like most on here were seasoned travelers and like most who have posted find premium cabins warm. You're very lucky it doesn't bother you.

Our first BA J experience was in those horrible middle pair and despite packing tshirt, jumper and light pajama pants (for all eventualities) I ended up in just my boxers with blanket up to waist. QF 747 forward J cabin temp seems to vary. Best for 'cool' has been NZ J.

 

[jb747]

Singair 777 this morning bordered on cold...

 

[PMHI]

Maybe impossible for temperature to please everyone on a plane. Even in bed at home I can be hot and my wife can be cold.

 

[DaveinCanberra]

Strange because I have been too cold so often on flights that I now always pack a jumper in carry-on, even en route to Bali. On an SQ A380 in 2010 (upstairs in Y) I had to ask the CSM for help as I was freezing - my bare arms felt like ice. Yet on QF to Osaka (A330) last June in exit door seats we didn't notice that it was cold.

 

[prozac]

If you are cold it is easy to don another article of clothing. I vouch you will not like it when I start taking off mine.

 

[oldies on tour]

A few years ago we flew from Gold Coast to Singapore and return on Scoot. The day flight over was fine but the overnight flight on our return was freezing. I wondered why people in Singapore were boarding with their coats on, and we soon found out. They must have been experienced "Scooters" as someone said that Scoot do that so you will buy their "night pack" with the blanket. If that's true then that's an appalling way to treat your customers. So that was a first and last trip on Scoot for us. Don't know if that still happens.

 

[Melburnian1]

Isn't one difficulty for the many of us who fly to or from Asia (and maybe Middle East) that those setting temperatures (flight or cabin crew) and many passengers are used to very warm to hot temperatures and therefore in a setting like an aircraft, train or bus do not find 23 or 24 degrees "warm?"

I agree with the majority of posters. 20 or 21 degrees Celsius is the ideal setting. Perhaps 22 might be OK, but the heat from all the entertainment devices, convection ovens and lots of bodies in a confined space needs countering. Anything above that is uncomfortable.

I have had it lowered once or twice after asking nicely. The suggestion to qualify it with an 'if others' is excellent and one to adopt on future trips.

So easy to pack a light coat that doubles as extra padding or a pillow if not needed re temperature.

 

[dudekramer]

When travelling on ANA the temperature had been set at 23 degrees, and when queried the flight attendants confirmed it was because Japanese passengers preferred the cabin to be warmer - and this was in the back of economy. Still fly them as their service is normally impeccable.

 

[Gazza129]

Regardless of the airline we are always hot in J.
On one flight the CSM said that due to the angle of attack of the aircraft heat naturally rose towards the front.
Sounds reasonable.

 

[nutwood]

When travelling on ANA the temperature had been set at 23 degrees, and when queried the flight attendants confirmed it was because Japanese passengers preferred the cabin to be warmer - and this was in the back of economy. Still fly them as their service is normally impeccable.

I agree different countries have different expectations of temperature. I notice that when I stay in a hotel that has a high Asian clientele, the climate setting in the rooms is always far higher than I'm comfortable with, sometimes over 25 °C. I favour 21 °C for a living temperature and a couple of degrees lower for sleeping. Planes are always on the warm side for me.

 

[Quickstatus]

JAL 787 in J.
Too hot
Asked the temp to be turned down. Didn’t feel a difference
These cabins don’t have the individual air flow ports.

 

[downgraded]

JAL 787 in J.
Too hot
Asked the temp to be turned down. Didn’t feel a difference
These cabins don’t have the individual air flow ports.

And a lack of individual air vents is one item that turns me away from travelling with certain airlines.

 

[GlennT]

Would be interesting to take a thermometer on the plane.

Some digital bag scales also have a thermometer function (no idea why). I took this out of my HL and recorded the air temp (24C) when the FA dismissed my assertion it was too hot It got turned down pretty quickly to 21C, supposedly. This was CX F cabin HKG-JFK.

 

[BorisWood]

We fly JAL in J mostly and find they are always too hot - 25-26C. Then we see the Japanese passengers taking the cardigans on offer and putting them on followed by a blanket! We are in short sleeves and fanning ourselves. We like all other aspects of JAL (food, seats, country, punctuality, price) so we have to put up with it.