This airline is getting rid of window shutters
There's nothing worse when you're trying to catch forty winks on an airplane and the passenger at the window seat won't put the shade down.
Unless you want a mid-air confrontation, you're at the mercy of your fellow flyer and all you can do is bring an eye mask (or hope the airline provides one).
But all that will become a thing of the past on Qantas' new Dreamliner 787-9, due to start flying in December.
The Australian airline has announced that its new aircraft will come complete with dimmable windows, which passengers and cabin crew can adjust.
"They're electronically dimmable windows," Rachelle N. Ornan-Stone, a design researcher at The Boeing Company, told News.com.au.
"There are five levels of darkness and at the darkest you can sleep very comfortably but you're still able to look outside."
The cabin crew will also be able to control the level of darkness with the press of a button.
"It's really important that everybody has the opportunity to have an uninterrupted sleep and not to have to worry about someone who wants to peek outside and fill the cabin with light."
"We wanted to make sure that sleep is guaranteed and that flight attendant's have control."
Qantas has ordered eight Dreamliners which will be used to fly from Melbourne to Los Angeles from December and Perth to London in March 2018.
However, it's not the first airline to introduce aircraft without window shades after Boeing ditched the plastic one for the Dreamliner. Air New Zealand was the first airline globally to take delivery of the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft in 2014.
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First appeared on Stuff.co.nz.