Daylight flight, shades down 100% request
Flying long haul WESTBOUND in daylight, shade ettiquete was, if direct light annoying someone, dazzling, then good manners, shade down.
However had a terrible UNITED LHR-SFO departing at noon and landing at half past one where the PA was for all shades down. I was trying to read my book abd I got a lot of pressure from certain quarters, noticeably a woman across the cabin (777), two rows ahead who kicked off I was letting daylight in. It was 2pm UK time. The PA to close the shades meant eventually the whole cabin was in utter darkness, though business had a couple up, enough for low level ambient daylight but more then acceptable to sleep IMHO
So, for WESTBOUND daylight, what airlines do this?
Flown BA, VS, AA and DL and not seen this before. Is it just UNITED or is it becoming a thing? I know Asian westbounds to Europe are all shades down, perhaps that’s an Asian thing?