You have finally pressed the magic "Confirm Booking" button and invested your annual holidays with a thousand ambitions for the fantastic destination of Singapore, or you are planning an intense summit for corporate import exports directly in Manhattan. In addition to the excitement peak, the question immediately arises: how to emerge whole and awake through ten or sixteen endless hours stuck sitting in the same pressurized corridor? Trips defined in technical jargon as "Long-Haul flights" are certainly scary not for the flight but more specifically for the prolonged fatigue of the limbs and the impossibility of completely detaching oneself from the dense and monotonous cabin.
Surviving and arriving immaculately on routes that cross six planetary time differences is not at all random or left to genetics: it requires procedures, obsessive practices, ad hoc accessories ready in the utilitarian's courtesy baggage and neuro-sensory planning rigorously prior to the moment you start on the sorting fingers at boarding. Let's find out how to prepare for very long transcontinental flights to get you to the terminal in perfect mental condition.
1. Strategic and Meticulous Choice of Air Seat
Never ever underestimate the square centimeters acquired at the formal check-in twenty-four hours before. Save for trips in unbridled opulence between First Premium rows and isolated closed cubicles in the famous suites of Arab or Singaporean flagships - the so-called "best buy" of the rabble in economy class (Economy and Standard Travel) it needs vital clarity and extreme geometric experience:
- The Operational Advantage of the Corridor (Aisle Seat): Very suitable for sensitive souls, the chronically impatient, travelers prone to easy constipation due to blood mobility in the knees with prolonged tendon compression; by default you can stretch your left arm, lawfully and continuously access the toilet doors on board and stow the tool for getting high easily and easily without crossing or rudely waking up the passenger diner in the adjacent chair in heavy sleep-wake.
- The Window Seat Protective Nest: The very first isolation line with total immunity from passing social interference. It is almost necessarily suitable for the sleepy professional, the traveler inclined to zen ecstasy via audio book or the person who literally expects several cumulative bouts of sleep for twelve hours and aspires to the radiation of absolute asymmetrical comfort by resting the entire torso or the back of the neck on the pre-formed concave cheeks of the cold side of the steep fuselage (the only one where you can control the input of the photon intensity iridescent, violently or softly obscuring the external visor with a rigid, mobile shading slider).
2. Fight dryness and temperature changes
You find yourself on aircraft that cover a thousand kilometers crossing glacial temperatures on the borders of an external exothermic realm varying in the freezing surroundings from the classic fifties up to the stubborn frostbite of unfavorable 60 radiant polar degrees. The air chamber is a condensed and wrapped forcing of propane turbines which by filtering poor external air (scarce and rarefied O2 elements of dense oxidation to thin the friction to constant minimums and operate limited kerosene expenditure and virtuous eco-sustainable rotation of the rotors) injects heat and sprays the duct but drastically and inevitably reducing the total volumetric pockets of the Humidifying Amount Relative standard percentage which becomes rounded miserably within much poorer margins of forests such as the Sahara and Atacama (eleven and rarely even in the best Boeings the twenty % max of humidity artificially recharged in the best winged aerostatic filtering circle of cleaning and purifying recirculation HEPA against microbacteria or pathogens). Drink and hydrate like you're on the move!
Moisturizing and zero alcohol skincare routine
Abolish dry and absolute coffee during the two regular meals and the meandering vice in the unlimited open bar for super cold beers between the Crew's interludes as the microvessel dilations will cause monstrous post-hangover headaches of altitudinal confinement and painful lactic acid muscle paralysis. Instead, sprinkle everything with basic humidifying creams and oils in a transparent pocket with a rigorous liturgy every approximately 4500 kilometers elapsed. Use the water bottle and draw water carefree and abundantly along the entire dark Atlantic or Arctic trail.
3. Mental Clock and Bio Rhythmic Reset (No Jet Lag!)
It has been certified in the academic calculation of circadian cycle disturbances in the time zone of large strides (travel with changes above and clearly beyond the standard differentials of the feared four-five hourly spans of asynchronous time zone or east and west of the solar rotational meridians of the geostationary sphere traversed by today's terrestrial solar elliptical cosmic rotation), the hypothalamic and endemic perturbations of the weak instantaneous receptive production of Pure melatonin of the brain bulb deal blows to the body's vigil or drowsy alert system at senseless rhythms, paralyzing muscles and lethargic digestive atrophy of the intestinal tract upon post-landing awakenings and morning awakenings in the midst of sleeping abroad, far away for full and disastrous weeks.
The great master flyer from beyond the Alps resolutely adapts and pre-sets the chronograph timers and personal smart dials (the wristwatch as an internal mental metaphor) displacing the entire behavioral panorama by scrupulously accommodating only the times in force in the foreign time being taken over (The Exact Global Destination of the Tourist Destination Booked for Landing or Re-Landing on Time Returned to the walls of the reassuring and domestic city soil in homeland). Resist the listless drowsiness if you land tomorrow morning and drink a strong Coke Zero, first eat some heartening fresh food from the harsh local town without going to bed and force yourself to run around in the bright streets of the markets in transit local foreign citizen in the morning air so that the Sun immediately activates the neuro receptor of the habituation to the peremptory time emerging xenophile, forcing it to regress.