It’s important to keep an open blind. Having the window shade open during takeoff and landing might seem like an unnecessary nuisance. However, there’s an important safety reason for this seemingly ...

Love bagging the window seat on planes? It's exciting to watch the world below fade away as the aircraft takes off with the window blinds open. However, those blinds, or shades, do more than allow you ...

The person closest to the window in every row gets to control the shade. On overnight flights, or very early morning ones, it’s just the right thing to do to keep your window shade closed so everyone ...

Raise them, lower them, raise ’em again. A plane’s window shades tend to get quite a workout during a typical flight, but many passengers don’t realize why flight attendants often care so much about ...