Monday, April 13, 2015

Take on the overnight fly

Years ago the thought of 14 hours on a flight sounded like hell on earth, twenty years and three kids later it sounds like heaven.  Fourteen hours to catch up on sleep, a few movies and a couple of episodes of Fargo is one of the hidden pleasures of international travel.  What is less pleasurable are some of these flights leave at 1AM NY time and land on the other side of the earth at 4AM their time.   It's not the time in the air, it is the fact that nobody has any sense of what time it should be.  Should we continue living on NY time or are we better off trying to get acquainted with Seoul time?

Apparently, the airlines have no clue so they opt for the worst option, instead of just letting people decide themselves, they turn all the lights on after seven hours to serve breakfast.  This might be fine if you are hungry but then again they served dinner five hours earlier and now as opposed to sleeping for a solid block you are startled awake and when I get woken up, I cannot get back to sleep..ever.  It is seven hours into a fourteen hour flight and they decide that this is the best time to wake up the entire cabin and don't even get me started about the duty free thing 

Why not serve you a snack when you first walk on and then another an hour before you land, leaving all the rest for quite time to sleep??



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