Low Cabin Temperatures

[flapsforty]

Ryan Airs fleet is mainly 737-800s. The temperature is notoriously difficult to get right on this type. Yes Notso, even for male pilots.
On the 800 there is a 'cold-trap' at about row 14 for example; never mind what the pilots do with the temp controls in the cockpit, walking to the back during flight you can feel a wall of cold air at row 14.

It takes a lot of fine tuning of the buttons that control the temperature of the inflow-air, to get it comfortable for the pax. With the locked cockpit door, this usually takes 3 or 4 calls between cabin and cockpit for that purpose alone.
Which is fine when you have the time.....
But flying with the Minimum Required Flight Safety Crew like many 737 operators in Europe do these days, cabin crew is always short staffed for the amount of service they are expected to provide. Companies calculate down to the minute what they can get cabin crew to do. And on short stretches (80% of what the 737 does) time is a scarce commodity for the cabin crew.

But you're the paying customer, so if you're cold, tell the FAs. And if you're still cold after 10 minutes, tell them again.
Cold air lies low, at about the level you are sitting as a passenger. Hot air rises up; to about the level wheere out heads are while we are running around like demented wasps.
We won't feel the cold the same way you do, so you need to tell us when you're freezing.

I spend way too much time both as a freezing-passenger and as a sweating FA on the 737 so this is a subject close to my heart