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Did I mention I'd been on Eggheads?
4.42am Thursday (UK time) and I'm wide awake!
My body still thinks it is 11.42pm Wednesday.
Flew Monday / Tuesday and was up 36 hours with around 2 hours total sleep during that period including taking in the Leipzig game,. Went to bed 1am Wednesday and woke up 3.30pm
Watching loads of YouTube videos currently with no sign of crashing
 
I do a lot of long haul both east and west into and out of UK for work and don’t suffer from it. I used to.

My “trick”, if you can call it that, is to be on destination time as soon as I’m on my flight. For the routes I usually fly I typically don’t sleep when heading west and try to get no more than a couple of hours when travelling east. I try to plan to get to my destination as late as possible, if it can’t be avoided and is a late / overnight flight with an early landing I try to get as much sleep as possible but planes are usually too hot for me to get too much and no fucker will open the window.

It works for me.

Oh and I don’t drink alcohol before flying or on plane
 
metalblue said:
I do a lot of long haul both east and west into and out of UK for work and don’t suffer from it. I used to.

My “trick”, if you can call it that, is to be on destination time as soon as I’m on my flight. For the routes I usually fly I typically don’t sleep when heading west and try to get no more than a couple of hours when travelling east. I try to plan to get to my destination as late as possible, if it can’t be avoided and is a late / overnight flight with an early landing I try to get as much sleep as possible but planes are usually too hot for me to get too much and no fucker will open the window.

It works for me.

Oh and I don’t drink alcohol before flying or on plane
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Temazapan for me, out like a light.
 
metalblue said:
I do a lot of long haul both east and west into and out of UK for work and don’t suffer from it. I used to.

My “trick”, if you can call it that, is to be on destination time as soon as I’m on my flight. For the routes I usually fly I typically don’t sleep when heading west and try to get no more than a couple of hours when travelling east. I try to plan to get to my destination as late as possible, if it can’t be avoided and is a late / overnight flight with an early landing I try to get as much sleep as possible but planes are usually too hot for me to get too much and no fucker will open the window.

It works for me.

Oh and I don’t drink alcohol before flying or on plane
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When I travelled long-haul, I pretty much adopted the same approach.
I once flew to Hong Kong, escorting a group of senior citizens. Stayed overnight and the flew back to LHR. Had a few hours in a hotel then flew same day to LAX. Stayed 1 night then met up with another SC group inbound from NZ and flew home. Drove home, went to my office for the rest of the day and resumed normal day/time routine.
Weirdly, since the smoking ban, air quality on planes has worsened. Airlines used additional fuel clearing smoke fumes out of the cabin, which also removed stale air.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
When I travelled long-haul, I pretty much adopted the same approach.
I once flew to Hong Kong, escorting a group of senior citizens. Stayed overnight and the flew back to LHR. Had a few hours in a hotel then flew same day to LAX. Stayed 1 night then met up with another SC group inbound from NZ and flew home. Drove home, went to my office for the rest of the day and resumed normal day/time routine.
Weirdly, since the smoking ban, air quality on planes has worsened. Airlines used additional fuel clearing smoke fumes out of the cabin, which also removed stale air.
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I remember flying into Australia a couple of times and the cabin crew would walk down the aisle spraying everyone down with some disinfectant, Wtf
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
When I travelled long-haul, I pretty much adopted the same approach.
I once flew to Hong Kong, escorting a group of senior citizens. Stayed overnight and the flew back to LHR. Had a few hours in a hotel then flew same day to LAX. Stayed 1 night then met up with another SC group inbound from NZ and flew home. Drove home, went to my office for the rest of the day and resumed normal day/time routine.
Weirdly, since the smoking ban, air quality on planes has worsened. Airlines used additional fuel clearing smoke fumes out of the cabin, which also removed stale air.
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Did Colleen ever find out Wayne?
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
When I travelled long-haul, I pretty much adopted the same approach.
I once flew to Hong Kong, escorting a group of senior citizens. Stayed overnight and the flew back to LHR. Had a few hours in a hotel then flew same day to LAX. Stayed 1 night then met up with another SC group inbound from NZ and flew home. Drove home, went to my office for the rest of the day and resumed normal day/time routine.
Weirdly, since the smoking ban, air quality on planes has worsened. Airlines used additional fuel clearing smoke fumes out of the cabin, which also removed stale air.
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Wow, what a job.
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
When I travelled long-haul, I pretty much adopted the same approach.
I once flew to Hong Kong, escorting a group of senior citizens. Stayed overnight and the flew back to LHR. Had a few hours in a hotel then flew same day to LAX. Stayed 1 night then met up with another SC group inbound from NZ and flew home. Drove home, went to my office for the rest of the day and resumed normal day/time routine.
Weirdly, since the smoking ban, air quality on planes has worsened. Airlines used additional fuel clearing smoke fumes out of the cabin, which also removed stale air.
Click to expand...

That’s a trip and a half mate. We had some meetings in Singapore earlier this year and the guys in from Peru left Friday tea time and landed Sunday around 5pm. They didn’t have a clue where they were or what day of the week it was. They were still fucked 4 days later, wanting to be in bed for 5pm and walking the hotel at 2am, couldn’t get their body clocks right at all.

I said I would have gone via Oz but still same journey time with lay over apparently. Just feels like you’d have not crossed 3/4 of the worlds time zones getting there!!!
 
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