Tips and tricks for minimise travel jet lag
Tips and tricks for minimise travel jet lag
Today’s modern jets have you landing before you depart. Your mind may find this confusing but your body is in an even worse state! Lunch is happening in the middle of the night and its dark when your body wants to be awake. Flying too fast over over too many time zones will seriously disrupt your body clock, but there are some things you can do to lesson the impact
There seems to be no getting used to long-haul flights, researchers report that flight crews who regularly cross multiple time zones still suffer the effects of jet lag including: poor and interrupted sleep, mood changes, irritability, stomach problems, and decreased brain power. So there is probably no cure, but read on for some tips on how to minimise the effect of jet lag on you.
Fly North South rather than East West
Flying five hours north of Perth, Australia will get you to Singapore on the same time zone. Flying five hours east of Perth will get you to Sydney only three hours after you leave. That first flight won’t give you jet lag, the second one may.
Take a Stop Over or Two
It used to be that traveling from Europe to Australia took three months on a sailing boat, fast liners speeded that up to six weeks. The first direct commercial flight from Sydney to London was Qantas’s first Kangaroo Route service. In 1947 that first Qantas “direct” flight departed Sydney and flew to Darwin, Singapore (overnight), Calcutta, Karachi, Cairo (overnight) and Tripoli, before arriving in London after some fifty-five hours in the air and over ninety-three hours in total. It’s a fairly safe bet that those first twenty-nine passengers and eleven crew didn’t have to deal with jet lag.
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