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I always prefer Window seats while in an Airplane. I always like to identify the cities and landscapes over which we are flying. I think that this suggestion of downing of Windows is unique to American Carriers. Wheneevr I travel by European or Asian Airlines, I do not recall any Flight Crew requesting passengers to down their windows.
I have flown twice from NYC via Chicago to Beijing and these were daytime flights (arriving in the mid-afternoon). Relatively speaking they can't have been the most expensive as my employer was trying to save as much as possible. The return flights from Beijing to NYC (one via Chicago and the other via D.C.) were during day but arrived in the evening.