Originally Posted by
TED74
And here’s a little secret: no one is even looking out the windows, except perhaps little Johnny…and his view is blurry because he just licked the glass. When folks look away from their phones to come up for air for 60 seconds max - they don’t even perceive the outside world, much less care what some knucklehead outside is wearing.
Exactly. I still like to look out the window when deadheading and nonrevving. Must be because I am pilot.
The percentage of pax completely content to look at their phones from pushback to arrival, never once lifting their window shades to peer outside briefly, even for takeoff or landing, is probably 90+% these days.