OK, the point is a bit moot on this particular buff, since my window is one of several that have frozen completely over. I draw the cabin staff’s attention to the matter. Pas de problème, I’m assured, happens all the time, we’re used to it.
On approach to KIX, all the windows abruptly defrost, letting non-trivial rivulets of water trickle into the hull’s innards. Is it just by chance that the dimming circuits on several nearby windows seem to be on the fritz?
As the wheels thump onto the runway, I find myself wondering what the great long-distance aviator Sir Alan Cobham would have thought. But perhaps he’s already told us. “In my line of business,” he once said, “one stays alive by attention to detail.”
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Unfortunately my next flight to Japan will be on a 787, too.
Perhaps the iced condensation on the inside of your glass window is a result of the extra moisture you get with the 787 having a carbon fiber fuselage. On your old Swiss a340s the air is drier due to the aluminum fuselage, I believe.
Thanks for reading my whinge, Iain. Yep, your plastic vs aluminium thesis is persuasive. Nevertheless, I've flown three or more out-and-returns to Japan on two different airlines' A350s, also a carbon-fibre craft, on the same route, and not a whisker of ice appeared on any window at any time. Not even over the North Pole. So this seems to be a buff-specific problem. By the way, another passenger was complaining of the same issue on the return flight.
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